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Volume  XIII 


Number  1 1 


November,  1921 


ZiEMER  Memorial  Girls'  School 
Misses  Gertrude  B.  Hoy  and  Marion 
Miss  Ruth  P.  Snvder,  Xtnv 


Yoriiow  City,  Chixa 
P.  Firor,  Teachers 
Tcaelier 


"For  tlie  drtikness  sliall  turn  to  dawning, 
And  the  dawning  to  noonday  bright. 
And  Christ's  great  kingdom  shall  come  on  earth, 
The  kingdom  of  love  and  light." 


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Mission  Study  Class — Kiskiminetas  Missionaey  Conference,  1931 


"PLAYING  SQUARE  WITH  TOMORROW" 

was  the  favorite  book  among  the  young  people  at  the  Summer  Missionary  Conferences 
this  summer.  There's  a  reason.  It  has  a  vital  interest  and  a  congenial  appeal  to  young 
American  Christians  today. 

Every  congregation  should  have  a  class  of  young  people  studying  this 
book  this  fall. 

For  Ixformatton  Address 

Department  of  Missionary  Education 
Fifteenth  and  Race  Streets  Philadelphia 


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The  Outlook  of  Missions 

Headquarters:  Reformed  Church  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Published  Monthly  by  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  the  Board  of  Home  Missions  and  the 
Woman's  Missionary  Society  of  General  Synod,  Reformed  Church  in  the  United  States. 


CONTENTS  FOR  NOVEMBER 

THE  QUIET  HOUR   482 

General 

Conserving  the  Conferences   483 

Home  Missions 

Conferences  with  Missionaries   487 

An  Important  Gathering   487 

An  Evangelistic  Tour   488 

Home  Mission  Churches  Aided  by  the  Forward  Movement   489 

Notes    490 

The  Meeting  of  the  Executive  Committee   4S1 

Abstracts  of  the  Reports  of  the  Superintendents   491 

An  Interesting  Day  with  Hungarian  Missions  in  Chicago   493 

Observations  of  the  Treasurer   494 

The  Public  Forum  in  the  Small  Town  or  Rural  Community   436 

Roll  of  Home  Missions   499 

General  Fund  Receipts  for  September   500 

Foreign  Missions 

Let  us  Pray  for  Peace   501 

An  Honor  to  Our  Church   501 

Help  from  a  Friend  at  Vancouver   501 

The  Japan  National  Christian  Workers'  Conference   502 

An  Outlook  on  the  World   503 

Evangelistic  Report  of  Japan  Mission   504 

Letters  of  Dr.  Hoy,  V,  VI,  VII   507 

Another  Letter  from  Dr.  Adams   511 

Life  in  a  Buddhist  Temple   512 

Itinerating  Notes    514 

Receipts  for  Month  of  September   514 

Woman's  Missionary  Society 

Editorial    515 

The  New  Reformation  in  Czecho-Slovakia   516 

A  Prayer  for  Women   518 

The  New  Glarus  Colony — Early  History  and  Progress   519 

Experiences  in  Organization  Work   520 

Lake  Geneva  Summer  School  of  Missions   521 

Literature  Chat    522 

The  Challenge    523 

Methods  for  Mission  Bands   525 

A  Pageant    525 

Tuberculosis  in  the  South   527 

Missionary  Education    528 


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"Truth  is  the  Christian  objective.  We  are 
to  know  in  order  that  we  may  be.  To  know 
the  life  that  is  in  Christ  is  to  know  ourselves 
as  eternal." 


Grant  us  the  knowledge  that  we  need 
To  solve  the  questions  of  the  mind-; 
Light  Thou  our  candle  while  we  read. 

And  keep  our  hearts  from  going  blind; 
Enlarge  our  vision  to  behold 
The  wonders  Thou  hast  wrought  of  old; 
Reveal  Thyself  in  every  law, 
And  gild  the  towers  of  truth  with  awe! 

— Henry  van  Dyke. 


More  dear  in  the  sight  of  God  and  His  angels 
than  any  other  conquest  is  the  conquest  of  self, 
which  each  man,  with  the  help  of  heaven,  can 
secure  for  himself. 

— A.  P.  Stanley. 


To  go  on  cheerfully  with  a  petty  round  of 
little  duties,  little  avocations,  to  smile  for  the 
joy  of  others  when  the  heart  is  aching — who 
does  this,  his  works  will  follow  him.  He  may 
not  be  a  hero  to  the  world,  but  he  is  one  of 
God's  heroes. 

— Canon  Farrar. 


"Christianity  is  the  only  power  on  earth  that 
can  be  relied  on,  year  in  and  year  out,  to  cor- 
rect abuses  in  social  conditions,  to  institute 
reforms,  and  to  extend  a  helping  hand  to  the 
needy,  regardless  of  restrictions.  God  help 
each  one  to  do  his  part!" 


What  Christ  offers  to  us  is  to  break  right 
through  all  the  petty,  naturalistic  walls  that 
surround  us  and  to  set  us  free  to  live  His  own 
high  and  delivered  and  empowered  life. 

— Robert  E.  Speer. 


Would  we  but  yield  our  lives  to  Thee  we'd 
cease 

From  thinking  we  know  best;  and  then  we'd 
take 

The  disappointments — even  the  mistakes — 
As  all  o'erruled  by  Thee.    The  "ifs"  would 
go, 

And  we  should  mount  on  eagles'  wings,  and 
know 

That  Thou  hast  kept  Thy  best  in  store. 

— L.  M.  Warner. 


Whoever  has  a  pure  heart  is  likely  to  have 
a  clear  head.  Sin  in  the  heart  is  the  chief 
source  of  error  in  the  mind.  When  the  affec- 
tions are  corrupted  no  one  can  think  straight. 


So  long  as  a  man  looks  at  life  from  the  angle 
of  self-interest  you  see  at  once  how  impossible 
it  is  to  interest  him  in  something  that  has  to 
do  with  the  unseen  side  of  life. 

— Harris  E.  Kirk. 


He  came  not  to  destroy  men's  lives,  but  to 
save  them.  It  was  more  important  that  He 
interpret  brotherhood  in  terms  of  all  the  na- 
tions of  the  world  than  that  He  should  be  the 
Jewish  Messiah. 

— Peter  Ainslie. 


Knowledge  is  not  going  to  save  us.  Ap- 
paratus will  never  save  us.  Good  intentions 
and  pious  wishes  will  not  save  us.  Nothing 
will  save  us  but  the  Spirit  of  the  eternal  God. 
Unless  God  gives  us  a  fresh  baptism  of  His 
Spirit  we  are  lost! 

— Charles  E.  Jefferson. 


The  heart  of  God  is  always  open.  Believe 
that,  and  then  go  to  face  all  the  shadows  of 
life.  Build  on  that,  then  go  out  to  make  the 
contribution  which  your  life  has  to  give.  Noth- 
ing can  defeat  you. 

— Sidney  M.  Berry. 


THE  PRAYER 

OH  GOD,  we  would  learn  to  worship  Thee  more  truly,  with  knowledge  and  sincerity.  Help 
us  to  acquaint  ourselves  with  Thy  goodness  and  Thy  heart  of  love,  so  that  we  shall  be 
more  and  more  at  peace,  and  good  shall  come  unto  us.  Amen. 


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OUR  MOTTO:  The  Church  a  Missionary  Society— Every  Christian  a  Life  Member 


THE 

Outlook  of  Missions 


VOLUME  XIII 


November,  1921 


NUMBER  11 


Conserving  the  Conferences 


THE  Slimmer  Missionary  Conferences 
are  not  a  complete  success  unless  they 
go  down  into  the  life  of  the  congregation. 
It  is  only  a  portion  of  the  work  of  the 
conference  to  be  of  service  to  the  people 
who  are  delegates  to  the  conference. 
Perhaps  the  greater  work  of  the  con- 
ference is  the  work  which  the  conference 
does  through  the  delegates  after  they 
go  back  to  their  home  churches.  Indeed, 
it  may  almost  be  said  that  a  conference 
which  ends  with  the  closing  session  is  a 
failure. 

There  have  come  to  the  office  of  the  De- 


partment of  Missionary  Education  in  the 
last  two  weeks  several  very  splendid 
reports  of  work  that  is  being  done  in  con- 
gregations by  the  delegates  who  were  at 
the  conferences.  Some  of  these  are  so 
splendid  that  we  want  to  pass  them  on 
to  other  congregations. 

Here,  for  instance,  is  a  letter  we  re- 
ceived from  Rev.  David  Dunn,  pastor  of 
Calvary  Church  at  Turtle  Creek,  Pa.  Cal- 
vary Church  had  one  of  the  finest  delega- 
tions at  the  Kiskiminetas  Conference. 
Here  is  what  he  says : 

"We  are  planning  for  a  'Kiski  at  Cal- 


A  Notable  Group  at  the  Mission  House  Conference,  1921 
All  in  the  Picture  Are  Ministers'  Sons  and  Daughters 

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[November 


vary'  program,  a  school  for  mission  study, 
beginning  October  19th  and  continuing 
for  seven  weeks  on  Wednesday  evenings 
and  I  want  to  submit  several  of  the  main 
features  of  the  plan  that  you  may 
strengthen  it  through  such  suggestions  as 
you  see  fit  to  make. 

"The  first  night  will  be  given  to  social 
fellowship,  announcements  of  classes  and 
inspirational  means — something  after  the 
fashion  of  the  opening  night  of  the  sum- 
mer conferences.  Then  on  the  six  suc- 
ceeding Wednesday  evenings  we  propose 
to  have  classes  on  the  following  books : 

"The  Kingdom  and  the  Nations."  Woman's 
Missionary  Society  Class. 

"From  Survey  to  Service,"    Men's  Class. 

"World  Friendship,  Inc."  Young  People's 
Class. 

"Making  Life  Count."  Intermediate  Boys' 
and  Girls'  Class. 

"Stay-at-Home  Journeys."  Tlie  Mission 
Band  Class  will  be  held  on  Saturday  afternoons 
through  a  longer  period  of  time. 

"Each  evening  will  be  opened  with  ten 
to  fifteen  minutes'  devotions  and  closed 
with  several  rousing  songs,  at  which  times 
all  will  be  together. 

"Last  Sunday  evening  we  devoted  the 
entire  service  as  ^Kiski  Echo  Service', 
endeavoring  to  give  our  people  a  bird's- 
eye  view  of  the  conference.  The  younger 
delegates  reported  and  we  showed  reflect- 
oscope  pictures  and  sang  the  favorite  songs 
of  the  conference." 

Here  is  another  interesting  quotation 
from  one  of  the  delegates  at  Collegeville. 
St.  Thomas  Church,  Reading,  has  had  a 
Conference  Club  for  many  years;  in  fact, 


"Mt.  Gretna  Club,"  St.  Thomas 
Church,  Reading,  Pa. 


it  dates  back  so  long  that  they  call  it 
"The  Mount  Gretna  Club." 

This  Club  always  has  a  splendid  dele- 
gation at  the  conferences  and  does  not  for- 
get the  conferences  during  the  year.  One 
of  the  members  of  this  Club  says: 

"You  may  be  interested  to  know  that 
our  Club  has  been  trying  out  some  of  the 
suggestions  given  at  the  Conference  with 
good  results.  This  week  we  are  giving 
the  Pageant,  'In  Search  of  Light,'  in  our 
Missionary  Society,  and  in  about  a  month 
we  intend  to  give  the  operetta,  'The  Feast 
of  the  Red  Corn,'  both  given  at  College- 
ville." 

This  is  the  sort  of  after  conference 
activity  which  we  would  like  to  see  culti- 
vated in  every  congregation  in  the  Church. 
This  makes  the  conference  a  real  fruit- 
bearing  affair.   Let  us  have  more  of  it. 

Arthur  V.  Casselman. 


How  Little  Joe  Won  His  Health 

(A  true  story  of  one  youngster  whose 
mother  died  of  tuberculosis  at  his  birth.) 

JOE  was  the  pet  of  the  ward. 
For  a  newcomer  he  made  himself 
heard  in  the  world.    But  smiles  some- 
limes  followed  the  tears,  and  occasionally 
Joe  was  known  to  accomplish  both  at  the 
same  time. 

Joe's  mother  had  been  a  charity  patient. 
She  had  fallen  under  the  shadow  of  the 
White  Plague,  and  Joe's  coming  into  the 
world  had  meant  the  giving  of  her  life 
for  the  new  one. 

Of  course,  no  one  can  ever  quite  make 
up  for  the  loss  of  a  real  mother,  but  Joe 
had  no  lack  of  foster  mothers  in  the 
nurses.  They  gave  him  the  best  of  care, 
alternated  with  petting  in  the  odd 
moments  of  their  busy  days. 

Whoever  Joe  had  in  the  way  of  rela- 
tives didn't  seem  to  be  interested  in  him, 
until  one  day  a  thin-lipped,  sharp-nosed 
woman  who  said  she  was  "Mollie's  aunt'' 
— Mollie  being  Joe's  mother — came  to  see 
him.  No,  she  couldn't  adopt  him.  Didn't 
Mollie  have  tuberculosis  and  wasn't  the 
baby  sure  to  have  it,  too  ? 

The  doctors  tried  to  convince  her  that 
consumption  is  not  hereditary.  It  was  to 
no  purpose.  "Mollie's  aunt"  wasn't  going 
to  assume  any  such  responsibility  as  a 


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The  Outlook  of  Missions 


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^'peak-ed-looking  baby"  in  her  spinster 

household. 

She  said  so  emphatically  and  stalked 

out  of  the  institution. 

Secretly  glad,  the  nurses  took  little  Joe 

back  to  the  orphanage  wing  of  the  big 
'    hospital,  more  determined  than  ever  to 

disprove  the  unwarranted  prediction  of 

"Mollie's  aunt." 

And  they  did.    Today  little  Joe  has 

found  a  real  home.  That  he  is  the  sturdi- 
^  est  youngster  on  the  block  is  attested  by 

several  high  percentage  score  cards  and 
^   blue  ribbons  won  in  baby  contests  where 

health  was  made  the  basis  of  competition. 
Now  Mollie's  aunt  wants  him,  but  the 
f    little  fellow  is  assured  of  intelligent  and 

loving  care  by  devoted  foster-parents,  and 

the  courts  have  sanctioned  their  adoption 

of  him. 

.       Unfortunately,  all  the  little  Joes  in  the 
I    world  have  not  been  given  equally  good 
chances. 

No  child  is  ever  born  with  tuberculosis, 
so  the  medical  experts  tell  us.    The  dan- 
ger comes  from  infection  by  contact  with 
older  members  of  the  household  who  have 
J  the  disease.    Evidence  of  tuberculosis  be- 
gins to  show  itself  in  a  baby  about  the 
'  time  the  child  is  first  allowed  to  play  on 
')    the  floor.   If  bodily  resistance  is  great  the 
disease  may  never  develop,  even  though 
i  there  may  be  an  infection.   Figures  of  the 
j'  National  Tuberculosis  Association  show 
P  that  from  75  to  90%  of  the  population  in 
civilized  communities  is  infected  with  the 
White  Plague  germs  before  the  age  of 
,  sixteen. 

(But  right  living,  such  as  was  little  Joe's 
good  fortune  to  have,  will  keep  this  men- 
ace away. 

Tuberculosis  is  a  disease  that  thrives 
amid  ignorance  and  neglect.  Sunlight, 
;  fresh  air,  cleanliness,  plenty  of  nourishing 
i  food  and  rest  under  the  proper  medical 
\  supervision,  will  conquer  the  White 
I  Plague.  More  than  1,000,000  persons  in 
I  this  country  are  afflicted  with  tuberculosis 
in  an  active  form  and  at  least  1,000,000 
others  have  the  disease  in  a  latent  or 
quiescent  form.  During  the  past  year 
there  were  132,000  deaths  in  the  United 
1  States  from  tuberculosis,  which  means 
I  that  one  person  died  every  four  minutes 
I  of  this  preventable,  curable  disease. 


Yet  a  winning  fight  is  being  made 
against  this  menace  by  the  National 
Tuberculosis  Association  and  its  1200 
affiliated  organizations  throughout  the 
country.  In  the  fifteen  years  since  the 
Association  began  its  work  the  death  rate 
from  tuberculosis  in  the  United  States  has 
decreased  from  200  per  100,000  to  120 
per  100,000  of  population.  Funds  to  carry 
on  this  effort  are  secured  from  the  sale 
of  Tuberculosis  Christmas  Seals,  and  the 
Fourteenth  Annual  Christmas  Seal  Sale 
will  be  held  in  December. 

Buy  and  use  Tuberculosis  Christmas 
Seals.  They  will  change  the  tears  of  the 
little  Joes  of  the  world  into  smiles! 


Outstanding  Facts  Regarding  Tuber- 
culosis in  the  United  States 

One  death  in  every  10  is  due  to  tuber- 
culosis. 

One  death  in  every  6  of  insured  wage- 
earners  is  due  to  tuberculosis. 

132,000  persons  of  all  ages  died  in  the 
United  States  of  tuberculosis  last  year. 
This  number  is  approximately  equal  to 
the  population  of  Youngstowai,  Ohio,  or 
Springfield,  Massachusetts ;  it  is  the  equiv- 
alent of  three  United  States  Army  divi- 
sions at  war  strength. 

12,000  of  these  victims  of  tuberculosis 
were  children  under  15  years  of  age.  This 
number  is  approximately  six  times  the 
normal  passenger  list  of  a  huge  ocean 
liner,  such  as  tlie  Berengaria. 

1,000,000  persons  have  tuberculosis  in 
active  form,  out  of  a  total  population  of 
105,000,000. 

Measured  by  the  Clock 
One  person  dies  of  tuberculosis  every 
4  minutes,  15  every  hour,  360  every  day. 
It  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  all  the 
figures  on  this  sheet  apply  only  to  the 
United  States. 

It  Kills  Producers 
Most  of  the  victims  of  tuberculosis  are 
stricken  in  the  prime  of  life.  More  than 
one-quarter  of  all  who  die  between  the 
ages  of  15  and  45  years  are  killed  by 
tuberculosis.  This  may  be  truly  called  a 
needless  sacrifice,  since  tuberculosis  is  pre- 
ventable and  curable. 


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[NOVEMBEB 


Twice  as  Deadly  as  War 
Approximately   70,000   American  sol- 
diers died  of  all  causes  in  the  World  War. 
Tuberculosis  killed  150,000  men,  women 
and  children  in  the  same  period. 

The  Hidden  Enemy 
Tuberculosis  always  fights  from  am- 
bush. It  is  not  a  spectacular  warrior  like 
yellow  fever.  History  is  full  of  allusions 
to  the  dread  of  "yellow  jack"  when  that 
disease  appeared  in  a  city.  Yet  yellow 
fever  has  killed  in  the  United  States  fewer 
people  in  over  120  years  than  tuberculosis 
kills  in  a  single  year. 

To  beat  such  an  enemy  as  tuberculosis 
one  must  know  something  of  his  lurking 
places  and  how  he  makes  his  approach. 
Tuberculosis  lurks  in  environments  of  bad 
living  and  working  conditions. 

HoAV  to  Prevent  and  Cure 
Tuberculosis 
Fresh  air  and  sunlight,  clean,  nourish- 
ing food  and  sufficient  rest  are  the  great 
preventives  and  remedies.  "Out  of  dark- 
ness into  light"  pictures  strikingly  the 
dominating  feature  of  the  movement  to 
eradicate  tuberculosis.  The  first  step  is 
to  bring  people — children,  workers,  every- 
body— out  of  dark,  damp,  poorly  venti- 
lated places  into  homes,  schools,  work- 
shops where  sunshine  and  fresh  air  are 
plentiful. 

Winning  the  Fight 
Fifteen  years  ago,  when  the  National 
Tuberculosis  Association  began  its  work, 
the  death  rate  from  tuberculosis  was  200 
in  each  100,000  population  of  the  United 
States.  The  limited  funds  for  the  fight 
against  tuberculosis  came  from  a  few  con- 
tributors. 

Today  the  death  rate  from  tuberculosis 
has   fallen   to   approximately  120 
100,000. 

The  Christmas  Seal  is  a  Shield 
The  saving  of  over  75,000  lives  per  year 
is  due  to  work  made  possible  by  the  little 
Christmas  Seal.  The  purchase  of  these 
seals  at  one  cent  each  by  millions  of  per- 
sons provides  funds  for  anti-tuberculosis 
work.  Herewith  is  reproduced  the  1921 
Christmas  Seal,  the  fourteenth  to  be 
offered  to  the  American  public.    Small  as 


it  is,  the  seal  has  been  aptly  pictured  by 
artists  as  a  shield  between  the  people  and 
their  deadly  enemy. 


per 


Bearers  of  Gifts  and 
Bearers  of  Health 

As  the  wise  men  of  old 
went  forth  with  their 
gifts,  just  so  is  the  spirit 
of  human  helpfulness 
conveyed  by  the  carriers 
of  Christmas  Sealed 
Christmas  mail. 

Each  Christmas  Seal  on 
your  letters  and  pack- 
ages  is  a  symbol  of 
blessing  to  the  victims 
of  tuberculosis,  herald- 
ing a  winning  fight  for 
the  thousands  who, 
without  the  scientific 
aid  made  possible 
through  your  kindness, 
might  perish. 


Christmas  Se 


rlstmas  Mail 


The  Narional,  State  and  Local  Tuberculosis 
Associations  of  the  United  States 


Home  Missions 

Charles  E.  Schaeffeb,  Editor 


Conferences  With  Missionaries 

In  connection  with  the  meetings  of  the 
District  Synods,  there  has  been  a  con- 
ference with  the  Missionaries  of  the  Synod 
in  each  instance,  which  proved  of  great 
interest  and  importance.  The  District 
Superintendents  of  these  respective 
Synods  assembled  the  Missionaries  and 
conferred  on  their  vital  subjects.  It  gave 
the  Missionaries  an  opportunity  to  state 
their  problems  and  difficulties,  and  free- 
dom was  given  to  make  valuable  sugges- 
tions by  way  of  helping  both  the  Mission- 
ary and  the  Superintendent.  The  matter 
of  Evangelism,  of  pastoral  visitation,  of 
the  full  payment  of  the  Apportionment 
and  the  Forward  Movement  were  the 
principle  subjects  under  consideration. 
These  conferences  revealed  the  variety  of 
work  which  is  being  done  by  our  Mission- 
aries as  well  as  the  many-sided  problems 
which  confront  them  in  this  work. 

To  be  a  Home  Missionary  is  not  the 
easiest  position  to  fill.  Many  duties  are 
devolving  upon  the  Home  Missionary  by 
reason  of  a  lack  of  a  large  force  of  workers 
and  untrained  men  and  women  than 
usually  appears  in  a  strong  and  self-sup- 
porting congregation.  The  Home  Mis- 
sionary has  temptations  which  are  peculiar 
to  himself.  He  is  in  danger  of  doing  all 
the  work  himself  without  parcelling  out 
responsibility  to  others  and  training  them 
for  efficient  service.  Having  small  audi- 
ences to  preach  to  he  is  tempted  to  make 
only  meager  preparations  for  his  pulpit 
work.  Constant  attendance  upon  material 
things  saps  him  of  the  spiritual  vitality 
needed  by  a  pastor  to  build  up  the  life  of 
his  congregation.  All  these  things  were 
brought  out  and  discussed  at  these  con- 
ferences with  Missionaries  at  the  Synod- 
ical  Meetings. 


An  Important  Gathering 

There  gathered  in  the  Fort  Pitt  Hotel, 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  on  the  evening  of  Sep- 
tember 21st,  a  very  notable  and  distin- 
guished group  of  men  and  women  around 
the  dinner  table.  In  the  group  were  the 
two  representatives  of  the  Conventus  of 
the  Reformed  Church  of  Hungary,  Pro- 
fessor Elec  de  Boer  and  Dr.  Geza  Takaro ; 
also  the  President  of  the  General  Synod 
and  President  of  the  Theological  Semin- 
ary at  Lancaster,  Dr.  George  W.  Richards ; 
two  Professors  of  the  Central  Theological 
Seminary,  Dr.  Philip  Vollmer  and  Dr.  A» 
S.  Zerbe;  Mrs.  B.  B.  Krammes,  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Woman's  Missionary  Society  of 
General  Synod;  the  General  Secretary  of 
the  Board  of  Home  Missions  and  the 
Departmental  Superintendents,  Dr.  D.  A. 
Souders  and  Rev.  J.  M.  Mullan ;  also  Rev. 
J.  Harvey  Mickley,  D.  D.,  Recording 
Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Home  Missions, 
Rev.  David  Dunn,  of  Turtle  Creek,  Pa., 
and  the  following  Hungarian  ministers : — 
Rev.  Alex.  Kallassy,  the  President  of  the 
Western  Classis  of  the  Hungarian 
Reformed  Church  in  America;  Rev.  Alex. 
Harsanyi,  D.  D.,  Editor  of  the  "Refor- 
matus  Lapja;"  Rev.  Sigismund  Laky,  of 
New  Brunswick,  N.  J. ;  Rev.  Alex.  Kovacs, 
of  Dayton,  Ohio;  and  also  a  Professor 
from  the  Theological  Seminary,  at  Bloom- 
field,  N.  J.  General  good  feeling  and  fine 
fellowship  prevailed.  An  opportunity  was 
given  for  brief  addresses  in  which  the 
work  among  the  Hungarians  in  Europe  as 
well  as  in  America  was  freely  discussed. 
The  visiting  delegates  expressed  them- 
selves as  being  greatly  pleased  with  the 
reception  which  was  thus  accorded  them. 


Building  Operations 

The  Board  is  at  present  engaged  in 
fifteen  building  projects.  The  financing 
of  all  of  these  is  dependent  upon  the 
receipts  of  the  Forward  Movement.  Splen- 
did progress  is  being  made  in  the  building 


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488 


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[November 


of  the  Tabor  Church,  Philadelphia.  It  is 
already  under  roof.  The  cornerstone  was 
laid  September  8th.  The  Hope  Church, 
Philadelphia,  will  dedicate  its  new  church 
on  November  6th,  and  St.  Andrew's,  Phil- 
adelphia, on  the  same  day.  The  basement 
of  the  Emanuel  Church,  Allentown,  is 
ready  to  be  occupied  and  will  be  formally 
opened  on  November  13th.  The  Grafton 
Avenue  Church,  Dayton,  0.,  will  be  com- 
pleted by  the  end  of  the  year  and  Mission- 
ary Hale  is  looking  forward  to  a  great 
dedication  service  the  beginning  of 
February.  The  St.  Luke's  Church,  Balti- 
more, will  dedicate  on  October  16th.  The 
Church  at  Kannapolis,  N.  C,  is  just  about 
completed.  Plans  have  been  adopted  by 
the  Lowell  and  the  Grace  Missions  in 
Canton,  Ohio.  Trinity,  Buffalo,  is  making 
rapid  progress  in  its  new  building.  Eidge- 
wood,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  has  just  completed 
its  fine  Sunday  School  building.  The  new 
church  at  Duquesne  is  about  ready  to  be 
occupied  and  presents  a  fine  appearance. 
Plans  have  been  perfected  and  the  con- 
tract has  been  awarded  for  a  handsome 
new  church  for  Olivet,  Philadelphia. 


An  Evangelistic  Tour 

The  General  Secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  accompanied  a  team  of 
representatives  of  the  Commissions  on 
Evangelism  from  the  different  denomina- 
tions headed  up  in  the  Federal  Council's 
Commission  on  Evangelism,  and  touching 
the  following  cities: — Cleveland,  Detroit, 
Toledo,  Milwaukee,  St.  Louis,  Kansas 
City,  Omaha  and  Chicago.  In  all  of  these 
places  conferences  were  held  with  the 
ministers  and  a  popular  meeting  was 
usually  held  in  the  evening.  Opportunity 
was  also  afforded  for  denominational  con- 
ferences when  the  representatives  conferred 
with  the  ministers  of  their  own  denomina- 
tion. Of  the  meeting  in  Chicago,  the 
President  of  the  Church  Federation  there 
says,  "It  was  pronounced  by  those  who 
have  had  long  experience  in  Chicago  as 
being  the  most  remarkable  gathering  of 
ministers  they  have  ever  witnessed.  The 
room  was  packed  to  the  doors  and  dozens 
of  men  were  standing  *  *  *  The  whole 
spirit  of  the  meeting  was  most  satisfying. 
The  men  indicated  that  it  had  been  inspir- 


ing and  helpful."  The  meeting  was 
followed  by  a  luncheon  which  was 
attended  by  nearly  five  hundred  ministers 
and  laymen.  The  President  of  the  Chicago 
Federation  also  states,  "The  Committee 
approved  the  plan  to  devote  about  eight 
weeks,  from  the  middle  of  October  to  the 
middle  of  December,  to  a  program  of  prep- 
aration in  the  development  of  the 
atmosphere  of  the  idea  of  becoming  a  soul- 
winning  church  in  each  local  parish.  Two 
features  are  to  mark  this  period  of  special 
preparation.  The  first  is  a  class  for  the 
training  of  all  who  are  willing  t®  study 
the  subject  of  motives  and  methods  in 
personal  work  in  winning  people  to  Christ. 
It  is  urged  that  a  text  book  be  used  for 
this  class,  as  nothing  short  of  earnest 
preparation  for  a  time  will  bring  the 
desired  results.  The  second  feature  of 
the  plan  for  this  period  before  the  holidays 
is  some  method  for  securing  lists  of  pros- 
pective members  and  attendants.  Various 
suggestions  were  made  as  to  possible 
methods,  such  as  having  members  of  the 
congregation  sign  blank  forms  furnished 
them  with  names  and  addresses  of  people 
not  members  or  attendants,  securing  the 
names  of  parents  of  Sunday  School  chil- 
dren who  are  not  members.  Other  means 
of  securing  names  will  occur  to  those 
interested  in  the  purpose  of  this  feature 
of  preparation,  and  often  particular  plans 
will  be  specifically  adapted  to  the  local 
neighborhood." 


The  Rural  Church 

Many  of  our  congregations  in  Virginia 
Classis  are  of  the  distinctly  rural  type. 
They  naturally  present  problems  difficult 
of  solution.  The  plant  of  the  average 
country  church  is  small  and  the  equipment 
meagre.  In  many  cases  services  are  held 
only  once  or  twice  a  month.  The  people 
are  slow  to  adopt  new  methods  of  opera- 
tion. The  movement  toward  the  cities 
has  made  numerical  growth  extremely 
difficult. 

In  spite  of  discouraging  features  the 
rural  churches  constitute  the  back-bone 
of  our  religious  work.  Great  leaders  in 
all  walks  of  life  come  from  the  farm. 
Twelve  of  the  greatest  preachers,  eighty- 
six  of  the  leading  physicians,  and  eighty- 


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489 


one  of  the  foremost  lawyers  of  the  city  of 
Chicago,  according  to  Dr.  Gunsaiilus, 
were  farmer  boys.  With  a  single  excep- 
tion, every  member  of  President  Wilson's 
Cabinet  began  life  as  a  boy  in  some  small 
country  town.  A  writer  in  the  Methodist 
Recorder,  in  a  discussion  of  this  subject 
says:  "The  country  people  have,  and  will 
continue  to  have,  much  to  do  with  the 
moral  standards  of  the  centers  of  popula- 
tion, because  of  the  number  of  families  of 
high  ideals  who  go  into  the  cities  every 
year.  There  is  no  doubt  that  the  vitality 
of  the  large  city  is  kept  up  by  the  inflow 
of  new  blood  from  the  country.  The  work 
in  the  country  may  not  appeal  to  some  as 
being  as  heroic  as  the  rescue  work  of  city 
missions,  but  it  is  much  more  effective. 
It  pays  bigger  dividends.  The  country 
church  casts  salt  into  the  spring  to  sweet- 
en the  waters." 

AVith  all  the  difficulties  surrounding 
the  rural  church,  it  has  a  great  work  to 
do  and  we  must  "carry  on,"  sowing  the 
seed  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ.  Somewhere 
the  harvest  will  appear  in  the  growing 
kingdom  of  our  Lord. 

— The  Reformed  Church  Advocate. 


Home  Mission  Churches  Aided  by 
the  Forward  Movement 

The  following  Churches  w^ere  aided  in 
their  Church-building  projects  by  the 
Board  of  Home  Missions  during  the 
months  of  July  and  August :  Tabor,  Phila- 
delphia; St.  John's  Kannapolis,  N.  C. ; 
St.  Luke's,  Baltimore,  Md. ;  Grafton  Ave- 
nue, Dayton,  0.;  Hope,  Philadelphia;  St. 
Mark's  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  Emmanuel, 
Allentown,  Pa. ;  St.  Peter's,  Lancaster ; 
Grace,  Duquesne,  Pa.;  Japanese,  Los 
Angeles,  Cal. ;  Third  Church,  Greensburg, 
Pa. ;  Hungarian,  Gary,  Ind. ;  Trinity, 
Detroit,  Mich. ;  Grace,  Detroit,  Mich. ; 
First  Church,  St.  Joseph,  Mo. ;  Second 
Church,  Scranton,  Pa. ;  First  Church, 
Omaha,  Neb. ;  St.  Luke's,  Wilkes-Barre, 
Pa. ;  First  Church,  Salisbury,  N.  C.  New 
lots  were  purchased  in  Indianapolis.  Tliis 
involved  an  expenditure  of  over  $100,000 
in  gifts  and  loans,  all  of  which  was  made 
possible  by  the  Forward  Movement  funds. 


A  Cup  of  Cold  Water 

THESE  are  the  words  that  were 
printed  on  a  large  sign  over  one  of 
the  most  unique  stands  ever  seen  at  the 
Winchester,  Virginia,  Fair.  And  then 
there  were  these  additional  words: — 
"Given  by  the  Men's  Bible  Class  of  Centen- 
ary Reformed  Church,  Winchester."  This 
stand  was  erected  and  maintained  by  the 
Bible  Class  whose  name  is  given,  and  from 
it  in  one  day  it  is  estimated  that  probably 
12,000  drinks  of  ice  water  were  given  free. 
As  we  can  see  from  the  picture,  large 
barrels,  nicely  covered  with  white,  were 
provided  with  spigots,  and  drinking  cups 
were  given  away.  A  number  of  the  men 
of  Centenary  Church  were  continually  at 
the  stand  and  distributed  a  folder  which 
invited  the  men  of  the  community  to 
attend  the  church  and  the  sessions  of  the 
class.  This  splendid  piece  of  community 
work  received  the  unanimous  applause  of 
the  Fair  authorities  and  of  the  large 
crowds  tliat  attended  the  Fair. 


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[XOVEMBER 


NOTES 

Dr.  D.  H.  Fouse,  pastor  of  the  Seven- 
teenth Avenue  Community  Church, 
Denver,  Colorado,  is  conducting  two 
classes  on  "The  Spiritual  Life,"  one  on 
Wednesday  mornings  and  the  other  on 
Thursday  evenings.  He  expects  to 
organize  several  more.  This  Mission  is 
doing  a  great  community  work,  and  will 
be  able  to  do  even  more  efficient  work 

when  it  gets  its  proper  equipment. 

*  *  * 

The  Ministerial  Union  of  Harrisonburg, 
Virginia,  has  worked  out  a  plan  for  hold- 
ing simultaneous  evangelistic  services  in 
the  several  Protectant  Churches  of  the 
city.  The  services  will  extend  over  a 
period  of  two  weeks.  Each  pastor  is  to  do 
his  own  preaching,  or  he  may  secure  the 
assistance  of  another  pastor,  but  there 
must  be  no  professional  evangelists.  Rev. 
J.  Silor  Garrison,  the  pastor  of  our  Mis- 
sion at  Harrisonburg,  expects  to  secure  the 
assistance  of  some  of  his  neighboring 
Reformed  pastors,  and  he  is  looking  for- 
ward to  a  pleasant  and  profitable  season. 
This  campaign  will  take  place  during 
November.         ^    ^  ^ 

The  Rev.  Clarence  Woods,  pastor  of  the 
Mission  at  Winchester,  Virginia,  which 
has  such  a  progressive  Men's  Bible  Class, 
as  you  will  see  by  reading  "A  Cup  of  Cold 
Water,"  which  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
issue,  has  been  elected  Superintendent  of 
Sunday  Schools  and  Young  People's 
Societies  of  Virginia  Classis.  It  is  his 
plan  to  create  a  more  lively  interest  in 
these  two  most  important  phases  of 
church  life,  and  to  hold  a  number  of 
divisional  conferences  or  institutes  which 
will,  in  the  end  embrace  the  entire  Classis ; 
and  then,  afte^  each  congregation  and 
Sunday  School  in  the  Classis  has  been 
reached,  to  hold  a  large  two-day  confer- 
ence or  institute. 

*  *  * 

From  November  2rth  to  December  11th 
a  "Gospel  Campaign"  will  be  held  in  St. 
Stephen's  Reformed  Church,  Lebanon, 
Pa.,  of  which  Rev.  E.  F.  Wiest,  D.  D.,  is 
the  Missionary.  The  Rev.  C.  B.  Alspach, 
D.  D.,  pastor  of  Mt.  Hermon  Reformed 
Church,  Philadelphia,  which  was  at  one 
time  a  Mission  under  the  Board,  has  been 


engaged  to  do  the  preaching.  The  pastor 
will  have  general  charge  and  do  follow-up 
^^'ork.  *    *  * 

Deaconess  Jessie  H.  Miller,  who  is 
doing  a  splendid  work  in  Dewey  Avenue 
Reformed  Church,  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  of 
which  Rev.  A.  H.  Groff  is  Missionary, 
reports  as  follows: — "We  reorganized  our 
Young  People's  Society  and  next  Wednes- 
day evening  we  expect  to  start  a  Teacher 
Training  Class.  In  the  afternoon  of  the 
same  dav  we  are  going  to  open  our  Craft 
Club— The  Head,  Heart  and  Hand  Club, 
a  continuation  of  the  Daily  Vacation  Bible 
School.  We  are  going  to  try  a  Supper 
Table  Conference  following  the  Craft 
Club  and  break  up  into  classes  before  the 
Prayer  Service  Hour,  and  hope  in  this 
way  to  get  every  one  interested  in  the 
work.  The  church  office  has  been  fitted 
up  quite  comfortably  and  is  proving  to  be 

a  great  asset  to  the  work  of  the  Church." 
*    *  * 

The  General  Secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  delivered  an  address  on 
"The  Church  and  the  Immigrant"  before 
the  Alliance  of  Reformed  Churches  Hold- 
ing the  Presbyterian  System,  which  was 
held  in  Pittsburgh,  September  16-25.  The 
substance  of  this  address  will  be  published 
in  the  proceedings  of  the  Alliance  and  may 
also  be  put  into  pamphlet  form  for  wider 
ciculation.  It  contains  the  latest  facts 
and  figures  regarding  the  problem  of 
Immigration  and  offers  a  constructive  pro- 
gram for  a  united  work  among  foreign- 
speaking  people  in  this  country. 

One  Way  for  a  Sunday  School  to 
Raise  a  Church-building  Fund 

Emanuel    Reformed    Sunday  School, 
Hazleton,  Pa.,  has  a  rather  novel  plan  for 
raising  a  Church-building  Fund  of  $500. 
The  entire  offering  on  Missionary  Sunday 
of  each  month  is  given  for  this  purpose, 
and  individual  classes  are  making  special 
contributions.   A  skeleton  church  of  cards 
has  been  made  and  they  are  building  the  i 
church  as  the  Fund  progresses,  the  first  i 
payment  being  the  cornerstone  and  the  | 
rest  will  be  put  into  bricks  costing  $2.50  ( 
a  piece.    In  this  way  the  progress  of  the 
Fund  is  kept  very  clearly  before  the  people 
and  is  most  favorably  received. 


A 


1921] 


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491 


The  Meeting  of  the  Executive 
Committee 

THE  quarterly  meeting  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  of  the  Board  of  Home 
Missions  was  held  in  University  Hall, 
Heidelberg  University,  Tiffin,  Ohio,  on 
October  7th,  1921.  All  the  members, 
except  Dr.  I.  Calvin  Fisher,  were  present. 
Mrs.  B.  B.  Krammes  and  Mrs.  E.  W. 
Lentz,  representing  the  Woman's  Mission- 
ary Society  of  General  Synod,  were  also  in 
attendance.  Most  of  the  business  was  of 
a  routine  character.  One  of  the  sessions 
was  given  to  the  reception  of  the  official 
representatives  from  the  Conventus  of  the 
Reformed  Church  of  Hungary,  and  the 
consideration  of  the  transfer  of  the 
Hungarian  Churches  in  America  under 
the  jurisdiction  of  the  Conventus,  to  the 
Reformed  Church  in  the  United  States. 
The  various  propositions  which  had  been 
submitted  at  different  times  by  the  Con- 
ventus on  the  one  part  and  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  and  the  Joint  Committee 
of  the  Eastern  and  Pittsburgh  Synods  on 
the  other  hand,  were  duly  considered  and 
at  last  a  definite  agreement  was  reached 
which  proved  mutually  satisfactory.  These 
representatives  from  Hungary  are  now 
visiting  the  congregations  in  the  Eastern 
and  in  the  Western  Classes  and  are  con- 
ferring with  them  with  a  view  of  trans- 
ferring these  Classes  to  the  Reformed 
Church  in  the  United  States.  The  two 
Synods  involved,  namely,  the  Pittsburgh 
and  the  Eastern,  have  already  acted 
authorizing  their  proper  officers  to  receive 
these  Classes  when  the  terms  of  the  agree- 
ment have  been  complied  with.  The  recep- 
tion of  these  congregations  will  involve  the 
Board  of  Home  Missions  to  the  amount  of 
$52,000,  to  pay  for  the  back  dues  and 
salaries  owing  the  Missions  and  Mission- 
aries. 

The  following  resignations  were 
accepted: — Rev.  Dallas  R.  Krebs,  High 
Point,  N.  C. ;  Rev.  F.  L.  Kerr,  New  Ken- 
sington, Pa. ;  Rev.  J.  S.  Kosower,  Jewish 
Mission,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  Miss  Hazel 
Duffy,  Social  worker,  Grace,  Detroit, 
Mich.  The  following  were  ordered  to  be 
commissioned : — Rev.  Henry  Miller,  Terre 
Haute,  Ind.;  Rev.  W.  E.  Troup,  East 
Market  St.,  Akron,  0.;  Rev.  E.  Bruce 


Jacobs,  Calvary,  Lima,  0. ;  Rev.  W.  D. 
Mehrling,  Jenners-Boswell,  Pa. ;  Rev.  F. 
K.  Stamm,  State  College,  Pa. ;  Rev.  Dallas 
R.  Krebs,  High  Point,  N.  C. ;  Rev.  T.  S. 
Orr,  Avon  St.,  Akron,  0. ;  Miss  Marian 
Shaley,  English  Teaclier,  Japanese  Mis- 
sion, Los  Angeles,  Cal.  The  congregation 
at  Austintown,  Ohio,  was  enrolled  as  a 
Mission. 

The  Superintendents  of  the  various  De- 
partments presented  their  reports.  The 
Treasurer  offered  his  report  which  showed 
net  receipts  during  the  quarter  ending 
September  30th,  in  the  General  Fund  of 
$24,150,  and  in  the  Church-building 
Department  $32,608.  Of  this  amount 
$23,580  was  Forward  Movement  money. 
The  expenditures  for  the  quarter  in  the 
General  Fund  were  $65,577.  In  the 
Church-building  Department  the  total 
investments  were  $137,027.  The  resources 
of  the  Board  have  almost  reached  the 
million  dollar  mark.  The  surplus  of  the 
Board  is  $61,291.  The  total  amount 
received  from  the  Forward  Movement  to 
October  1,  1921,  is  $192,403. 

Much  time  and  attention  was  given  to 
the  requests  for  loans  and  Forward  Move- 
ment grants.  Amounts  totaling  $12,000 
were  granted  either  in  the  form  of  gifts  or 
loans.  Over  $100,000  was  invested  through 
the  Church-building  Fund  Department  in 
Mission  properties  during  the  previous 
quarter.  The  Board  stands  in  great  need 
of  the  full  apportionment  to  advance  its 
General  Department,  and  of  Church- 
building  Funds  and  the  Forward  Move- 
ment in  order  to  assist  its  Missions  in  the 
erection  of  necessary  buildings. 


Abstracts  of  the  Reports  of  the 
Superintendents  to  the  Executive 
Committee  at  Tiffin,  Ohio 

I  did  not  find  it  convenient  to  take  any 
vacation  this  Summer.  I  delivered  37 
sermons  and  addresses,  visited  11  Mission 
Charges  and  9  otlier  charges,  spent  four 
weeks  in  the  work  of  the  Summer  Mis- 
sionary Conferences.  An  analysis  of  the 
annual  reports  from  the  Missions  shows 
the  net  gains  for  the  past  year  in  members 
to  have  been  in  Pittsburgli  Synod,  280 ; 
Potomac  Synod,  267 ;  Eastern  Synod, 
448 ;  total,  995 ;  making  an  average  net 


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[November 


gain  per  charge  of  14.5%.  All  of  the 
Missions  in  this  Department  except  six 
paid  their  Apportionment  in  full.  The 
total  amount  paid  by  the  Missions  for 
benevolence  was  $66,782.  Seven  Missions 
in  the  Department  are  vacant.  Six  Mis- 
sions conducted  Daily  Vacation  Bible 
Schools  this  Summer. 

James  M.  Mullait. 

The  depression  of  the  industrial  situ- 
ation is  necessarily  felt  in  many  of  our 
Missions.  Material  improvements  in 
church  plants  have  been  made  or  are  in 
process  in  St.  Joseph,  Sioux  City,  Omaha 
and  in  Lincoln,  in  the  Interior  Synod; 
and  in  the  Ohio  Synod  new  church  plants 
are  needed  or  in  process  of  erection  in  ten 
out  of  the  twenty-two  Missions. 

Vacation  Bible  Schools  were  conducted 
in  Detroit,  Gary,  Chicago,  Cedar  Eapids. 
The  main  emphasis  by  the  Missions  in 
their  work  is  being  placed  on  Evangelism, 
pastoral  and  personal.  This  should  result 
in  larger  ingatherings. 

The  report  also  speaks  about  the  union 
of  the  Synods  of  the  Southwest  and  the 
Interior,  w^hich  is  being  consummated  at 
Freeport,  October  18th  to  21st. 

John  C.  Horning. 
*    *  * 

Several  interesting  conferences  w^th 
Immigrant  Mission  workers  were  held. 
Very  few  Missions  report  an  increase  of 
membership  and  some  of  them  report 
losses  that  seriously  hinder  the  work  and 
in  several  instances  endanger  their  very 
existence.  The  reported  gains  were  only 
eight  members  while  the  losses  were  over 
one  hundred.  These  loses  are  due  to 
unemployment  and  the  removal  of  the 
people  to  other  places.  In  some  instances 
they  are  emigrating  to  the  homeland. 

Our  Bohemian  Missions  are  not  suffer- 
ing so  much  in  this  way  because  their 
members  are  more  largely  people  who  have 
lived  in  America  for  a  longer  time  and 
have  secured  homes  and  are  in  business  for 
themselves.  The  Bohemians  are  wonder- 
fully wrought  up  by  the  mass  movement 
which  is  going  on  in  Czecho-Slovakia  from 
Roman  Catholicism  to  Protestantism.  The 
Bohemians  in  America  are  frequently 
called  upon  to  relieve  tlie  sufferings  of 


their  brothers  in  Europe.  It  is  reported 
that  if  proper  help  is  given  in  this  mass 
movement  there  will  likely  follow  500,000 
conversions  to  Protestantism  during  the 
current  year.  The  urgent  call  comes  to 
America  to  send  educated  and  consecrated 
young  Bohemian  men  and  women  to  assist 
in  this  work. 

In  the  face  of  the  present  industrial 
depression  some  of  the  pastors  in  the 
Hungarian  churches  have  accepted  reduc- 
tion in  their  salary  and  are  earning  the 
difference  in  other  w^ork.  Daily  Vacation 
Schools  were  conducted  in  practically  all 
the  Hungarian  Missions.  These  schools 
show  a  total  enrollment  of  1,287  children, 
604  male  and  683  female.  Of  these,  746 
were  under  ten  years  of  age.  The  amount 
paid  for  tuition  by  the  parents  aggregated 
$1482,  and  the  entire  cost  of  running 
these  schools  $1800.  The  teachers 
employed  numbered  thirty.  The  instruc- 
tion was  partly  in  Hungarian  and  partly 
in  the  English  language.  There  are  at 
present  four  Deaconesses  regularly  em- 
ployed in  Hungarian  work — one  in 
Bridgeport,  Conn;  another  at  Homestead, 
Pa. ;  another  at  Toledo,  Ohio ;  and  another 
at  East  Chicago.  Still  another  is  on 
partial  time  in  Dayton,  0. 

D.  A.  Souders. 


Dedication  of  Hungarian  Cemetery 

The  Hungarian  congregation  of  Home- 
stead has  had  some  trouble  in  getting 
satisfactory  lots  in  the  local  cemeteries. 
They  therefore  concluded  to  buy  land  and 
estalDlish  a  cemetery  of  their  own.  They 
were  peculiarly  fortunate  in  getting  ground 
overlooking  the  city  and  the  Monongahela 
valley  beyond.  The  dedication  took  place 
on  Sunday,  September  18.  A  great  crowd 
of  Hungarian  Reformed  people  from 
Homestead  and  neighboring  towns 
paraded  from  the  church  to  the  new  ceme- 
tery. The  enclosure  was  opened  in  the 
name  of  the  Hungarian  Reformed  Congre- 
gation of  Homestead  in  connection  with 
the  Reformed  Church  in  the  United  States 
by  Supt.  D.  A.  Souders,  of  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions.  Then  followed  singing 
by  the  large  Benevolent  Society  of 
Hungarians  in  Homestead  and  the  singing 
of  a  psalm  by  the  assembled  people.  There 


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were  present  from  Hungary  three  distin- 
guished visitors  who  were  attending  the 
Alliance  of  Eef ormed  Churches  then  being 
held  in  Pittsburgh,  Bishop  Elemer 
Balough,  of  Czecho-Slovakia ;  Dr.  Elek 
deBoer,  Chief  Curator  of  the  Magyar 
Reformed  Church  of  Transylvania,  and 
Dr.  Geza  Takaro,  pastor  of  an  influential 
congregation  in  Budapest. 

Bishop  Balough  offered  the  consecratory 
prayer;  Dr.  Takaro  preached  the  sermon 
and  Dr.  deBoer  addressed  the  people  in 
the  name  of  the  Conventus  of  the 
Reformed  Church  of  Hungary.  The  music 
for  the  occasion  was  led  by  the  precentor 
of  the  Homestead  congregation  and  con- 
sisted of  Psalms  and  several  Anthems. 
Very  appropriately,  too,  the  assembly  sang 
our  National  Hymn  and  "My  Country, 
'Tis  of  Thee,"  as  well  as  also  several  of 
our  Gospel  Hymns  translated  into  Hun- 
garian. 


Thirtieth  Anniversary 
of  the  Hungarian  Reformed  Church 
in  Pittsburgh 

The  happy  event  was  celebrated  on  Sun- 
day, September  25th.  This  congregation 
and  the  congregation  in  Cleveland  are  the 
two  oldest  Hungarian  congregations  in 
America.  The  one  was  organized  a  few 
months  before  the  other  but  the  first 
organized  was  last  in  getting  into  its  new 
church;  so  there  is  a  pleasant  rivalry 
between  them.  No  doubt  the  Cleveland 
Congregation  will  vie  with  the  celebration 
held  in  Pittsburgh. 

A  little  dash  of  rain  while  the  members 
and  friends  of  the  congregation  were 
marching  with  band  and  flags  to  the 
church  did  not  in  the  least  disturb  the 
festivities  of  the  occasion.  We  counted 
10  flags  displayed  across  the  church  just 
in  front  of  the  chancel  and  recalled  that 
more  than  15  years  ago  we  took  part  in 
the  dedication  of  two  of  them  and  affixed 
an  honorary  shield  on  the  staff  of  one  of 
them.  The  music  for  this  occasion  was 
rendered  by  the  congregation  and  the 
several  adjunct  associations,  such  as  the 
Sunday  School,  The  Young  People's 
Society  and  the  Beneficial  Society.  The 
guests  present  and  taking  part  were  visit- 
ing Hungarian  ministers  from  America 


and  Drs.  deBoer  and  Takaro  and  Bishop 
Balough  from  Hungary;  and  Dr.  James 
1.  Good  of  the  Reformed  Church  who  is 
well  and  favorably  known  by  the  Church 
authorities  of  Hungary,  and  Dr.  D.  A. 
Souders.  Supt.  of  Immigrant  Missions  for 
the  Reformed  Church.  All  these  took  part 
in  the  services.  Rev.  Dr.  Kalassay,  until 
recently  pastor  of  the  congregation  for  the 
past  17  years,  read  a  historical  paper  and 
his  son-in-law.  Rev.  Vasvaryi,  present 
pastor,  had  charge  of  the  services. 

This  congregation  now  serves  a  Hun- 
garian community  of  more  than  1000 
persons  and  is  practically  self-supporting. 
Its  future  promises  well  for  the  Hungarian 
people  of  Pittsburgh  and  vicinity.  We 
expect  that  within  a  very  short  time  it 
will  again  be  an  integral  part  of  the 
Reformed  Church  in  the  United  States. 


An  Interesting  Day  With 
Hungarian  Missions  in  Chicago 

POSSIBLY  it  should  be  said  in  Gary 
and  Chicago,  for  the  time  was  shared 
between  the  two  places.  First  there  was 
the  Sunday  School  at  Gary  taught  by  the 
pastor,  Rev.  Eugene  Boros.  There  were 
25  bright  boys  and  girls  present.  The 
lesson  was  from  the  Old  Testament.  The 
children  were  kept  wide  awake  because  the 
questions  were  addressed  to  individuals. 
The  instruction  was  mostly  in  English. 

Next  in  order  came  the  morning  service 
in  church.  It  was  conducted  in  Hungarian 
but  the  sermon  was  in  English.  It  had 
to  be  for  it  was  delivered  by  the  Superin- 
tendent who  knows  only  a  few  words  in 
Hungarian.  He  never  learned  Hungarian 
and  believes  that  simple  Englisli  is  prefer- 
able to  defective  Hungarian  to  these 
people.  At  least  they  w^re  very  attentive 
and  afterward  expressed  their  apprecia- 
tion. 

A  congregational  meeting  was  held  after 
the  service  which  continued  for  an  hour 
and  was  both  interesting  and  helpful.  It 
gave  the  Superintendent  an  excellent 
opportunity  of  knowing  the  jieople  better 
and  of  helping  tliem  more.  We  always 
feel  that  such  meetings  bring  good  results. 

So  ended  the  morning  and  we  were 
ready  for  dinner  but  there  was  no  time  to 
take  it  so  a  friend  rushed  us  to  the  station 


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and  we  were  off  for  Chicago.  There  we 
got  half  an  hour  for  lunch  and  then  to  a 
Hungarian  mission  of  the  Dutch 
Eeformed  Church  on  west  side.  Our  mis- 
sionary has  been  asked  to  supply  this  mis- 
sion till  they  can  get  a  pastor  (or  until 
they  will  come  to  our  church) .  The  ser- 
vice here  opened  with  a  wedding  of  a 
young  lady  from  Gary  to  a  young  man 
from  Chicago. 

What  an  impressive  wedding  it  was! 
The  church  was  crowded  to  the  door,  and 
further.  The  bridal  party  occupied  3 
pews  on  either  side,  the  men  on  one  side, 
the  women  on  the  other.  There  were  15 
groomsmen  and  15  bridesmaids.  Each 
groomsman  wore  a  white  flower  on  the 
lapel  of  the  coat;  each  bridesmaid  carried 
a  large  bouquet  of  pink  roses.  The  bride 
carried  a  bouquet  of  white  roses.  All  were 
beautifully  and  appropriately  dressed.  All 
stood  around  the  altar  for  half  an  hour 
during  the  ceremony  which  included  a 
long  address  and  a  long  prayer.  May  the 
young  couple  ever  be  as  happy  as  were 
they  and  their  friends  on  this  day. 

The  wedding  was  followed  with  the 
usual  service  in  which  there  was  a  sermon 
in  Hungarian  and  an  address  in  English 
(very  short).  This  was  followed  by  the 
baptism  of  a  baby,  the  service  being  read 
in  Hungarian  by  the  pastor  and  the  cere- 
mony performed  by  the  Superintendent  in 
English. 

It  was  a  sweltering  hot  day  and  the 
writer  longed  foi^  fresh  air  and  rest;  but 
not  yet;  for  there  was  a  congregational 
meeting  after  the  service  to  determine 
when  the  regular  services  are  to  be  held 
and  what  the  congregation  will  give  the 
preacher  for  his  service.  Five  o'clock  set 
us  free.  The  minister  and  his  family  went 
to  the  home  of  the  wedding  party  for  a 
wedding  supper  and  the  Superintendent 
went  to  his  hotel  for  a  nap. 

What  was  the  impression  he  had?  The 
day  will  always  live  in  his  memory  for  the 
earnestness  and  devoutness  shown  by  the 
Hungarian  people  both  in  the  religious 
services  and  in  the  congregational  meet- 
ings. D.  A.  SOUDERS. 


Observations  of  the  Treasurer 

J.  S.  Wise 

ONE  notices  how  glibly  and  familiarly 
men  talk  in  terms  of  millions  in 
these  days.  Even  on  the  floor  of  our 
Synods,  large  sums  of  money  gathered  and 
distributed  by  our  churches  are  talked  of 
as  a  matter  of  course.  A  few  hundred 
thousand  consume  less  time  in  discussion 
than  was  formerly  spent  on  matters  re- 
quiring ten,  twenty,  or  at  most  twenty-five 
thousand  dollars.  There  was  a  time,  and 
not  very  long  ago  either,  when  the  Board 
of  Home  Missions  felt  it  wise  to  limit  its 
loans  to  $10,000.  Any  congregation  that 
required  aid  in  so  large  a  sum  had  reached 
the  limit.  In  fact,  it  was  a  grave  question 
as  to  whether  such  a  congregation  had  not 
better  go  to  self-support  and  finance  its 
own  project. 

All  this,  of  course,  was  before  a  Phila- 
delphia Program  or  a  Progressive  Project 
w^as  ever  launched.  Such  Programs  and 
Projects,  however,  by  reason  of  their  suc- 
cess and  the  splendid  returns  from  the 
affected  Missions  in  their  benevolent  offer- 
ings have  proved  their  value  and  have 
fully  demonstrated  their  wisdom  and 
sanity.  Five  Missions  in  Philadelphia  are 
now  self-suporting  congregations,  ade- 
quately equipped,  and  are  contributing  to 
the  regular  work  of  the  church  such  sums 
as  will  pay  back  every  dollar  they  received 
within  the  next  five  years,  to  say  nothing 
of  their  generous  response  to  their  For- 
ward Movement  quotas. 

The  same  may  be  said  of  all  of  our  Mis- 
sions where  timely  aid  was  given.  The 
time  for  generous  assistance  is  at  the  very 
beginning.  We  have  learned  that  our  dis- 
appointments are  due  mostly  from  meager 
support  in  the  beginning  of  a  Mission's 
life.  A  few  thousand  dollars  wisely 
invested  at  that  time  will  be  worth  much 
more  than  double  and  triple  the  amount 
later  on.  Especially  is  this  true  in  the 
growing  suburban  districts  of  our  large 
cities.  It  prevents  undue  competition  and 
inspires  the  confidence  of  the  community, 
and  such  confidence  is  absolutely  essential 
for  the  Mission's  growth. 

At  every  one  of  the  meetings  of  the 
District  Synods  this  fall,  much  of  the 
time  devoted  to  Home  Missions  was  con- 


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sumed  in  the  presentation  of  Social  Serv- 
ice and  Evangelism.  Our  Hungarian  work 
also  received  much  consideration.  In 
view  of  this,  I  felt  constrained  to  use  up 
every  second  of  the  five  or  ten  minutes 
that  I  managed  to  get,  in  urging  the 
claims  of  the  most  pressing  needs  of  the 
Board.  In  the  Church-building  Depart- 
ment these  needs  are  found.  Notwith- 
standing the  expenditure  of  more  than 
$135,000,  through  this  Department  during 
the  quarter  ended  September  30th,  much 
more  will  still  be  required  before  this 
year's  program  is  finished.  All  this  means 
such  improved  facilities  for  doing  the 
Lord's  work  as  will  result  in  largely 
increased  incomes  to  every  Board  and 
Institution  of  the  church,  both  at  home 
and  abroad.  Social  Service,  Evangelism 
and  all  the  other  activities  of  the  Board 
find  a  common  center  in  the  Church-build- 
ing Department.  Without  a  decent  equip- 
ment, most  of  their  efforts  would  be  futile. 
It  is,  after  all,  the  church  building  that 
stabilizes,  conserves  and  promotes  all  these 
phases  of  church  work,  and  in  these  days, 
the  type  of  church  building  often  deter- 
mines the  character  of  work  that  will  be 
done  in  after  years.  It  is,  therefore,  highly 
important  that  wherever  we  build,  much 
time  and  thought  must  be  spent  in  the 
consideration  of  proper  plans  and  styles 
of  architecture  before  a  spade  touches  the 
ground  and  building  operations  begin. 

Very  little  of  this  sort  of  thing  claims 
the  attention  of  our  Synods.  The  Board's 
statement  usually  contains  a  very  brief 
reference  to  the  Church-building  Depart- 
ment, and  yet  every  one  of  the  other  de- 
partments must  keep  in  constant  touch 
with  it.  Because  of  the  increased  income 
through  the  Forward  Movement,  everyone 
of  our  Missions  is  vitally  concerned.  The 
business  of  the  office  has  grown  to  such  a 
degree  that  frequent  apologies  must  be 
made  for  delayed  answers  to  letters,  etc. 
But  the  most  trying  part  of  the  Depart- 
ment's work  is  found  in  keeping  the 
numerous  building  operations  supplied 
with  sufficient  money  to  keep  them  going. 
Large  sums  must  be  borrowed.  Especially 
is  this  the  case  during  the  summer  months 
when  the  demands  for  money  are  the 
I  greatest  and  when  the  income  from  the 
Church  is  the  least.    July,  August  and 


September  were  in  this  respect  most  try- 
ing. I  trust  the  worst  is  over  for  this 
year  and  that  the  offerings  from  the  For- 
ward Movement  and  all  other  sources  will 
from  now  on  (October  15tli)  be  largely 
increased.  The  money  will  be  needed  for 
present  obligations,  even  though  new 
buildings  may  not  be  undertaken  before 
next  spring. 

Let  me  quote  one  significant  paragraph 
from  my  report  to  the  Board  on  October 
7th  :— 

"While  I  regret  to  make  this  statement, 
I  now  find  it  necessary  to  say  at  this  meet- 
ing that  there  should  be  no  appropriations 
made  except  for  a  few  small  requests.  The 
larger  items  should  be  tabled  until  Jan- 
uary so  as  to  enable  the  Department  to 
clear  up  the  number  of  operations  now  on 
the  way.  I  regret  to  take  this  step  but 
find  it  absolutely  necessary,  not  only  for 
the  sake  of  the  Department  in  its  office 
work,  but  mainly  for  the  purpose  of 
adjusting  the  finances  of  the  Board.  Our 
bank  loans  ought  to  be  considerably 
reduced  before  we  undertake  much  more 
new  work.  This  will,  I  know,  be  dis- 
appointing to  a  number  of  Missions 
anxious  to  begin  building,  but  I  deem  it 
very  unwise  to  undertake  any  new  obliga- 
tions at  this  time.  I  am  hoping  that  by 
January  conditions  may  change  and  im- 
prove to  such  a  degree  as  will  enable  us  to 
look  forward  to  a  large  program  for  next 
spring.  In  the  meantime,  we  will  con- 
tinue preparing  plans  that  will  enable  us 
to  go  forward  when  the  proper  time 
arrives." 

For  the  above  reasons,  I  confined  my 
addresses  before  the  Synods  mainly  to  this 
one  Department.  I  believe  it  is  tlie  most 
important  one  at  this  time.  The  enlarged 
work  in  building,  as  well  as  tlie  enlarged 
work  among  the  Immigrants,  will  make 
it  absolutely  essential  that  the  apportion- 
ment for  Home  Missions  be  paid  in  full. 
Let  me  urge  all  such  congregations  whose 
benevolent  income  exceeds  tlie  amount 
apportioned  not  to  hold  it  over  for  next 
year,  but  to  release  it  now  while  it  is 
needed.  "Over  the  top"  must  now  be  the 
watcliword  in  place  of  "apportionment 
paid  in  full."  In  another  year,  I  trust  the 
Syonds  will,  witliout  exception,  take  the 
"over  tlie  top"  position. 


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THE  COMMISSION  ON  SOCIAL  SERVICE  AND  RURAL  WORK 
Rev.  James  M.  Mullan,  Executive  Secretary 


THE  PUBLIC  FORUM 
In  the  Small  Town  or  Rural  Community 

By  Otis  Mooee 


A DEMOCRACY  is  either  governed  by 
crystallized  public  opinion  or  else  it 
is  boss-ridden.  Sometimes  benevolently 
inclined  individuals  may  manage  the 
affairs  of  the  town  or  the  state  or  the 
nation  and  manage  them  well,  but  that 
is  not  the  best  way.  If  there  is  to  be  a 
crystallized  public  opinion,  there  must  be 
provided  some  place  in  which  it  will 
crystallize.  Things  do  not  crystallize  when 
they  are  scattered  around  over  a  ten-acre 
lot.  The  public  forum  is  the  best  known 
device  for  crystallizing  a  truly  represent- 
ative public  opinion.  Of  course,  news- 
papers perform  this  function  more  or  less, 
but  there  is  nothing  that  can  quite  take 
the  place  of  the  give  and  take  of  the  open 
forum. 

President  Wilson  once  said  that  if  you 
want  to  get  the  really  forward-looking 
ideas  of  American  citizenship,  you  should 
be  around  a  country  store  on  Saturday 
night.  The  public  forum,  much  wider  in 
its  constituency  than  any  country-store 
crowd  can  be,  is  after  all  a  sort  of  glorified 
country-store  debating  club  where  every- 
body has  his  chance  to  say  the  best  that's 
in  him  to  say. 

There  is  scarcely  a  country  community 
anywhere  in  the  United  States  that  cannot 
have  a  good  public  forum.  The  first 
requirement,  and  the  second  requirement, 
and  the  biggest  requirement  is  INTER- 
EST on  the  part  of  the  people.  Money 
to  back  the  enterprise  is  not  the  main 
requisite  by  a  very  great  deal,  although 
many  people  seem  to  think  that  it  is. 

Launching  a  Fokum 
In  launching  the  movement  for  a  public 
forum,  the  first  step  is  to  get  a  thoroughly 
representative  committee  of  citizens  of  the 
community  back  of  the  enterprise.  Per- 
haps it  may  be  necessary  to  convince  some 
of  the  people  whom  you  would  like  to  have 


on  such  a  committee  that  the  public  forum 
is  desirable.  But  almost  anyone  who  has 
any  interest  in  the  welfare  of  a  community 
will  soon  see  that  the  building  of  general 
community  intelligence  is  a  matter  of  very 
great  importance.  One  of  the  most  suc- 
cessful community  forums  was  launched 
by  a  joint  committee  representing  all  the 
churches  of  the  town,  and  also  represent- 
ing a  certain  men's  club  which  was  in  no 
way  connected  with  the  churches.  The 
main  thing  is  to  get  the  various  interests 
of  the  town  represented. 

In  the  case  of  the  successful  forum 
spoken  of  above,  the  meetings  were  held  in 
the  central  school  house  of  the  village. 
The  building  was  heated  in  the  day  time 
anyway.  The  expense  of  heating  and  light- 
ing was  charged  against  the  general 
educational  funds  of  the  town.  The 
expenses  of  this  forum  were  entirely 
met  by  collections  taken  at  each  of  the 
forum  sessions.  A  series  of  seventeen 
forum  meetings  were  held  one  winter,  and 
at  the  close  of  the  season,  although  it  was 
a  small  town,  there  were  fourteen  dollars 
in  the  treasury  above  all  expenses.  In  con- 
nection with  the  forum  meetings,  there 
were  given  several  strictly  entertainment 
evenings.  These  were  more  expensive  than 
the  other  sessions,  but  helped  to  get  people 
in  the  habit  of  coming.  It  was  figured  out 
at  the  close  of  the  season  that  there  were 
not  more  than  twenty-five  people  in  the 
village,  above  the  age  of  nine  years,  who 
did  not  attend  at  least  one  of  the  forum  ^ 
meetings.  Children  were  permitted  to 
come,  but  were  kept  strictly  in  order  while  , 
the  actual  speaking  was  going  on.  Many  i 
people  said  that  the  talks  went  way  over  | 
their  heads,  but,  on  the  contrary,  it  was  j! 
found  that  many  of  the  children  were 
deeply  interested,  surprisingly "  interested, 
in  some  matters  which  most  folks  would  , 
have  thought  utterly  beyond  them. 


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Securing  Speakers 

Where  can  the  speakers  be  secured?  If 
there  is  sufficient  interest,  good  speakers 
can  be  secured  Avithout  difficulty.  It  is  a 
good  thing  continually  to  "put  it  up"  to 
the  audience  to  foster  this  interest.  They 
can  be  told  that  it  is  the  prime  considera- 
tion in  getting  good  speakers.  Kipling 
once  said,  "A  small  boy  learns  a  naughty 
word  and  chalks  it  on  the  sidewalk.  That 
is  literature."  There  is  nobody  who  has 
ideas  who  does  not  enjoy  expressing  them 
to  other  folks  who  are  interested.  To  be 
sure,  a  small  community  may  not  be  able 
to  pay  for  the  services  of  an  eloquent 
orator  very  often,  but  the  purpose  of  the 
public  forum  is  not  primaril}^  to  listen  to 
oratory,  but  to  incite  people  to  think. 

In  every  city  are  men  of  high  intelli- 
gence who,  through  their  business  or  their 
hobby,  are  authorities  in  some  special  field. 
Such  men  are  almost  always  glad  to  go  out 
and  speak  in  the  country  communities,  if 
the  dates  can  be  arranged  to  suit  their  con- 
venience. They  may  not  always  be 
experienced  speakers,  but  if  the  conditions 
are  made  as  informal  as  they  always 
should  be  in  a  rural  community  forum, 
the  fact  that  a  man  is  not  an  orator  is  very 
little  handicap. 

For  a  forum  held  in  a  small  rural  center 
in  Connecticut,  the  committee  secured 
many  good  speakers  through  various  state 
agencies,  the  Board  of  Agriculture,  the 
Agricultural  College,  the  Board  of  Health, 
the  Library  Commission.  Another  source 
of  speakers  was  the  group  of  local  and 
state  organizations  whose  very  purpose  is 
the  molding  of  public  opinion.  Men  with 
political  ambitions  also  were  given  a 
chance  to  have  their  say. 

One  of  the  very  best  known  physicians 
of  Boston  who,  by  the  way,  had  never 
made  a  speech  in  his  life,  went  down  to  a 
little  town  on  Cape  Cod  to  speak  on  Public 
Health.  It  was  a  most  luminous  address, 
and  the  forum  session  was  immediately 
opened  up  for  free  discussion,  bearing 
especially  on  the  local  health  problem.  A 
la-\v}'er  who  was  thoroughly  informed  on 
the  question  of  universal  military  service 
spoke  one  evening  in  that  interest. 
Another  man  of  the  same  city  who  had 
very  strong  convictions  on  the  other  side 


of  the  question,  spoke  from  his  standpoint 
on  a  succeeding  evening.  After  each  of 
these  addresses  there  was  a  free-for-all 
discussion.  These  men  gave  their  services 
and  the  collection  taken  paid  traveling 
expenses. 

Mr.  W.  D.  Sullivan,  who  has  been  for 
twenty-five  years  city  editor  of  the  Boston 
Globe,  went  down  to  a  little  Massachusetts 
village  to  speak  at  a  forum  meeting  on 
The  Making  Of  A  Newspaper.  He  left 
Boston  at  four-thirty  in  the  afternoon  and 
brought  with  him  a  dummy  of  the  Boston 
Globe  for  the  following  day.  He  described 
in  detail  and  in  very  simple  language 
exactly  how  the  news  would  be  secured  for 
the  next  morning's  paper.  "Of  course,"  he 
said,  "the  whole  character  of  the  issue  may 
have  to  be  changed  by  some  unforeseen 
news  which  has  loomed  up  since  I  left 
the  office." 

After  this  address,  the  question  was 
discussed  as  to  whether  a  newspaper 
should  reflect  the  standards  of  interest  of 
its  constituency,  or  try  to  mold  those 
standards.  The  building  was  packed,  and 
it  was  an  intensely  interesting  evening  for 
every  one  present.  When  the  treasurer 
of  the  local  committee  approached  Mr. 
Sullivan  at  the  close  of  the  evening  and 
asked  him  what  his  expenses  were,  he  said, 
"Don't  bother  about  that.  I've  enjoyed 
it."  And  he  had,  but  not  more  so  than  his 
audience. 

Adapting  the  Program  to  the 
Community 

One  of  the  most  vital  problems  in  con- 
ducting a  rural  forum  is  that  of  creating 
the  right  sort  of  atmosphere ;  to  make  the 
spirit  of  the  meeting  so  informal  that 
absolutely  everybody  feels  free  to  take 
part,  and  in  order  that  any  speaker  who 
has  something  to  say  can  make  himself 
understood,  even  if  lie  is  not  a  trained 
public  speaker,  lie  may  stand  up  or  sit 
down,  as  he  chooses,  just  so  lie  gets  the 
ideas  that  he  wants  to  convey  across  to 
the  people. 

The  state  highway  commissioner  was 
scheduled  to  speak  at  a  rural  forum  in 
Connecticut  on  the  question :  "How  can 
the  back  country  roads  of  this  section  be 
improved?"  Many  farmers  from  miles 
around  were  on  hand  to  hear  the  dis- 


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cussion  of  a  subject  of  such  vital  interest 
to  them.  The  commissioner  made  an 
excellent  address  full  of  practical  sugges- 
tion. When  he  finished  the  talk,  which 
was  made  from  a  little  platform  in  the 
church  vestry,  the  chairman  asked  for 
questions  and  discussion.  No  one  spoke. 
The  chairman,  who  knew  everybody  in  the 
audience,  then  came  down  from  the  plat- 
form and  walked  down  the  center  aisle. 
He  stopped  in  front  of  one  of  the  well- 
known  selectmen  of  the  section,  a  man 
whose  road-building  had  been  much 
criticized,  and  said  in  the  most  informal 
way,  "Charlie,  why  don^t  you  use  the  King 

drag  on  your  roads?"   "Well,  Mr.   ," 

Charles  answered,  "our  roads  are  too 
stony  mostly.  But  I  do  think  what  Mr. 
Bennett  said  about  drainage  being  the 
main  thing  is  surely  true,  and  I  guess  we 
haven't  planned  ahead  enough,  as  towns, 
in  our  road-building,  as  he  says."  Another 
selectman,  sitting  a  few  seats  back,  voiced 
his  opinion,  and  before  long  the  meeting 
was  wide  open,  and  the  best  experience  of 
all  the  men  present  was  brought  to  bear 
on  the  important  question  of  drafting  a 
Eoad-building  policy  for  ten  years  for  the 
roads  of  the  section.  No  one  in  the 
audience  would  have  spoken  at  all,  if  the 
chairman  had  not  come  down  into  the 
middle  of  the  audience  and  made  the  dis- 
cussion a  personal  conversation  with  each 
speaker. 

The  forum  programs  may  be  concerned 
with  big  national  or  international  issues, 
or  with  some  local  questions  of  very  par- 
ticular interest  to  the  citizens  of  the  town. 
But  it  must  be  something  about  which 
the  people  really  care  or  ought  to  care. 
Of  course,  the  issue  must  be  one  in  which 
the  people  have  a  real  interest,  or  dis- 
cussion will  not  get  very  far. 

Guiding  the  Program 
In  conducting  a  public  forum,  two  im- 
portant problems  are  to  get  the  people  who 
ought  to  take  part  in  the  discussion  to 
talk,  and  to  keep  some  few  individuals 
from  talking  too  much.  An  Indian  tribe 
out  west  used  to  have  the  rule  in  their 
council  meetings  that  no  brave  could  talk 
longer  than  he  could  stand  on  one  foot. 
A  rule  like  that  would  be  a  help  in  sup- 
pressing discussion  of  the  "windjammers" 


who  sometimes  try  to  monopolize  the  dis- 
cussions of  a  forum  session. 

In  connection  with  a  public  forum,  held 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Morgan  Memo- 
rial Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  Bos- 
ton a  few  years  ago,  an  excellent  plan  for 
side-tracking  long-winded  speakers  was 
used.  A  clear  understanding  was  secured 
with  the  audience  in  advance  as  to  their 
part  in  the  proceedings.  The  chairman 
of  the  meeting  kept  time  on  all  speakers. 
At  the  end  of  five  minutes  of  any  man'i 
time  in  speaking  from  the  floor,  the  chair- 
man arose  and  the  audience  silently  lifted 
their  hands  if  they  wished  the  speaker  to 
continue.  If  a,  majority  of  the  audience 
failed  to  raise  their  hands,  the  speaker  was 
almost  automatically  retired  from  the 
floor. 

The  old-fashioned  country  lyceum 
served  a  most  useful  purpose.  In  fact,  its 
mission  was  much  the  same  as  the  present 
public  forum.  It  helped  to  create  a  citi- 
zenship that  really  thinks.  The  Chau- 
tauqua movement  has  made  a  notable  con- 
tribution to  the  education  of  the  ordinary 
man  in  country  communities.  It  doesn't 
make  much  difference  what  the  thing  is 
called.  It  may  be  called  The  Lyceum,  or 
The  Open  Session  of  the  Men's  Club,  or 
the  Brotherhood,  or  the  Public  Forum, 
whatever  fits  in  best  with  local  tradition. 
The  important  thing  is  to  get  some  sort 
of  a  common  community  gathering  where 
people  think  and  talk  together  about  the 
matters  which<  ought  to  concern  patriotic 
citizens. — A  leaflet  published  by  the  De- 
partment of  Rural  Work  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church. 


Group  of  Mission  House  Conference 
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MISSIONS.  MISSIONARIES. 
OHIO  SYNOD 

Austintown,  O  

Avon  St.,  Akron,  O  T.  S.  Orr, 

93  Frances  Ave. 
E.  Market  St.,  Akron,  0...W.  E.  Troup, 
Williard,  Akron,  O  John  W.  Geier. 

681  E.  South  St. 
Alliance,  Ohio   Otto  Zechiel, 

968  S.  Linden  Ave. 
Grace,  Canton,  O  J.  Theodore  Bucher, 

916  23rd  St.,  N.  W. 

Lovrell,  Canton,  O  O.  P.  Foust, 

127  Arlington  Av.,  N.W. 
Grafton  Ave.,  Dayton,  O...Wm.  A.  Hale,  D.D., 

643  Salem  Ave. 
Heidelberg,  Dayton,  O  C.  G.  Beaver, 

1225  Huffman  Ave. 

Mt.  Carmel.  Dayton,  O  J.  C.  Schultz. 

Ohmer  Park,  Dayton,  0..,F.  A.  Shults, 

1225  Phillips  Ave. 
Grace,  Detroit,  Mich  C.  A.  Albright. 

2357  E.  Grand  Blvd. 

Detroit,  Mich.  (New  Point) 

Trinity,  Detroit,  Mich  F.  W.  Bald, 

516  W.  Sevenmile  Rd. 

Indianapolis,  Ind  G.  H.  Gebhardt 

Kenmore,  O.  (Goss  Mem.)..E.  M.  Anneshansley. 

Lima,  Ohio   Bruce  Jacobs. 

Lisbon.  Ohio  H.  L.  Hart. 

Louisville,  Ky  L.  C.  T.  Miller, 

1229  S.  Preston  St. 
Springfield,  O  J.  P.  Stahl, 

14  N.  Plum  St. 

Terre  Haute.  Ind  Henry  Miller. 

Grace,  Toledo,  O  Ellis  S.  Hay, 

360  Batavia  St. 
Warren,  Ohio  H.  J.  Miller, 

115  Mulberry  St. 
Toungstown,  O.  (Third).. .E.  D.  Wettach. 

R.  F.  D.,  No.  4. 

PITTSBURGH  »YNOD 

Braddock,  Pa  G.  P.  Fisher. 

Grace,  Buffalo,  N.  Y  O.  H.  Dorschel, 

869  E.  Delavan  Ave. 

Bethany,  Butler,  Pa  John  W.  Pontius. 

Connellsville,  Pa  J.  H.  Dorman, 

104  E.  Green  St. 

Derry,  Pa  William  H.  Landli. 

Duquesne.  Pa  H.  E.  Gebhart. 

Ell  wood  City,  Pa  A.  M.  Schaffner, 

606  Lawrence  Ave. 

Third.  Greensburg,  Pa  William  C.  Sykes. 

Grove  City,  Pa  H.  S.  Nicholson. 

First,  Homestead,  Pa...    D.  J.  Wolf. 

Jenner,  Pa  Walter  Mehrllng. 

St.  Paul's.  Johnstown,  Pa. A.  B.  Bauman, 

669  Grove  Ave. 

Larimer,  Pa  

McKeesport,  Pa  A.  M.  Billman, 

807  Parkway. 
New  Kensington,  Pa  F.  L.  Kerr, 

231  Ridge  Ave. 

Pitcairn,  Pa  C.  A.  Bushong. 

Ascension,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.H.  L.  Krause. 

1907  Termon  Av.,  N.S. 
Christ,  Pittsburgh,  Pa  E.  J.  La  Mar, 

7135  Rau  St. 
Rochester,  N.  Y  A.  H.  Groff. 

346  Clay  Ave. 
Sharpsville,  Pa  II.  N.  Spink. 

409  Walnut  St. 

TrafTord  City,  Pa  A.  K.  Kline. 

Yukon,  Pa  S.  U.  Waugaman. 

MID-WEST  SYNOD 

Abilene.  Kansas   A.  R.  Von  Gruenigen. 

First,  Cedar  Rapids,  la... Frank  S.  Bromer. 

632  L  St..  W. 

Grace,  Chicago,  111  M.  E.  Beck, 

^  27.")5  Jackson  Blvd. 

Denver,  Colorado   David  H.  Fouse. 

17th  &  Emerson  Sti. 
Freeport,  111  A.  J.  Michael. 


MISSIONS.  MISSIONARIES. 

First,  Gary,  Ind  J.  M.  Johnson, 

625  Tyler  St. 

Holton,  Kansas   W.  J.  Becker. 

St.  Paul's,  Kansas  City,    H.  L.  V.  Shinn, 

Mo   3642  Prospect  Ave. 

Lincoln,  Neb  Marcus  Gother. 

1125  S.  25th  St. 
Los  Angeles,  Calif  A.  Von  Greuiningen 

K.  R.  2,  Pasadena, 

Calif. 

Mill  Creek-Tamms,  111  L.  S.  Ilegnauer. 

First,  Omaha,  Neb  John  W.  Hawk. 

3334  S.  19th  St. 

Oskaloosa,  Iowa   L.  S.  Faust. 

St.  Joseph,  Mo  John  B.  Bloom. 

1012  Henry  St. 
Sioux  City,  Iowa  Ralph  J.  Harrity, 

1401  Rebecca  St. 

Wilton,  Iowa   

POTOMAC  SYNOD 
Salem,  Altoona,   Pa  Victor  R.  Jones, 

331  E.  Grant  Ave. 
Grace,  Baltimore   E.  R.  Hamme, 

l.'ill  Hanover  St. 
St.  Luke's,  Baltimore,  Md..Atville  Conner, 

1811  Penrose  Ave. 
St.  Mark's,  Baltimore,  Md..John  R.  T.  Hedeman, 

2214  E.  Hoffman  St. 

Brunswick,   Md  R.  F.  Main. 

Burlington.  N.  C  S.  J.  Kirk. 

Charlotte,  N.  C  Shuford  Peeler. 

Greensboro.  N.  C  H.  A.  Fesperman. 

Hanover,  Pa  W.  H.  Snyder. 

Harrisonburg.   Va  J.  Silor  Garrison. 

First.  High  Point.  N.  C. 
Hollidaysburg- Williams- 
burg, Pa  George  Ehrgood, 

Hollidaysburg,  Pt. 

Juniata,  Pa  John  K.  WetzeL 

Kannapolis.  N.  C  L.  A.  Peeler. 

Lenoir,  N.  C  A.  S.  Peeler. 

Lexington,  N.  C,  Second.. 

Lincolnton.  N.  C  

Roanoke,  Virginia   Aaron  Tosh. 

Salisbury.  N.  C  C.  C.  Waggoner. 

Thomasville,  N.  C  J.  A.  Palmer. 

Waughtown.  N.  C  D.  E.  Bowers. 

West  Hickory.  N.  C  W.  H.  McNalry. 

Winchester,  Va  Clarence  Woods. 

Winston-Salem,  N.  C  G.  E.  Plott. 

Emmanuel,  York,  Pa  O.  S.  Hartman. 

42  N.  Tremont  St. 
St.  Stephen's,  York.  Pa...E.  T.  Rhodes, 

1422  Market  St. 

EASTERN  SYNOD 


Emmanuel,  Allentown,  Pa. 

St.  James',  Allentown,  Pa. 

St.  Paul's,  Allentown,  Pa. 

Calvary,  Bethlehem.  Pa.. 

Fountain  Hill.  South 
Bethlehem.  Pa  

West  Side,  Bethlehem,  Pa. 

St.  John's,  Harrisburg,  Pa 

St.  Peter's,  Lancaster,  Pa.. 

St.  Stephen's.  Lebanon.  Pa. 

Lewistown.  Pa  

Marietta.  Pa.,  Zion  

McAdoo   


Montgomery,  Pa  

Minersville,  Pa  

Mountville.  Pa.,  Trinity.. 
Palmerton,  Pa  


J.  P.  Bachman, 
.35  N.  13th  St. 
Joseph  S.  Peters, 

49  S.  Franklin  St. 
•  E.  Elmer  Rensenig, 

.399  E.  Hamilton  St. 
.T.  C.  Strock. 

405  N.  Linden  St. 

.T.  C.  Brown. 

9.30  Ifasra  St. 
Z.  A.  Yearlck. 

425  Market  St. 
Clayton  II.  Hnnok. 

226  Woodbine  St. 
R.  J.  Pllpram, 

912  Burhannon  At«. 
Edward  F.  Wlett. 
N.  L.  Horn. 
N.  F.  Travel. 
C.  E.  Correll. 

Ilazleton.  Pa. 
Rov  Moorhead. 
O.  R.  Frantz. 
J.  W.  Zehrlng. 
J.  G.  Kerschner. 


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missions. 

Penbrook,  Pa.  .. 


Rosedale-Temple.  Pa.  ... 
St.  John's.  Pottstown,  Pa 
Fern  Rock,  Philadelphia. 

Olivet,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

St.  Andrew's.  Phila.,  Pa.. 

Tabor,  Philadelphia,  Pa.. 


Plymouth.  Pa  

Second,  Scranton.  Pa  


State  College,  Pa  

West  Hazleton,  Pa  

West  Milton.  Pa  

(St.  Paul's)   

Wilkes-Barre,  Pa  , 

Wyomissing.  Pa  , 

GERMAN  SYNOD 
Bethel.  Baltimore.  Md... 

Richmond  Hill,  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y  


Trinity,  Buffalo,  N.  Y... 

Egg  Harbor.  N.  J  

Glassboro,  N.  J  

Bethany,  Phila.,  Pa  

Hope,  Philadelphia,  Pa.. 

Karmel,  Philadelphia,  Pa 

Glade  Run.  Warren.  Pa.. 


MISSIONARIES. 

F.  M.  Grove, 

54  Banks  St.. 

Harrisburg.  Pa. 
F.  A.  Wentzel. 
Paul  I.  Kuntz. 
,  H.  G.  Maeder, 

.5942  N.  Park  Ave. 
.Maurice  Samson, 

5030  N.  12th  St. 
,A.  P.  Frantz, 

2146  S.  20th  St. 
.E.  J.  Snyder, 

4931  N.  Warnock  St. 

!g.  a.  Bear, 

539  Willow  St. 
.F.  K.  Stamm. 
.E.  F.  Faust. 

5S9  N.  Franklin  St. 

R.  Ira  Gass 
H.  A.  Shiffer, 
T.  J.  Hacker.  D.D. 

OF  THE  EAST 
.W.  R.  Strietelmeier, 
2  S.  Ellwood  Ave. 

.F.  W.  A.  Sawitzky, 
801  Manor  Ave.  (95th 
St.).  Woodhaven,  N.Y. 
.Wm.  Huber. 

281  Berkshire  Ave. 
.J.  O.  H.  Meyer. 
.F.  Steinman. 
.G.  A.  Haack, 

1008  Magee  St. 
.S.  H.  Matzke. 

6112  Haverford  Ave. 
.W.  G.  Weiss. 

2434  S.  72nd  St. 
.J.  F.  Reimers. 


AMERICAN  DEACONESSES,  HELPERS,  ETC. 
Kansas  City,  Mo  Miss  L.  Kippenham, 

2732  E.  36th  St. 
Gary,  Ind  Miss  Clara  Blanchard, 

440  Monroe  St. 

Rochester,  N.  Y  Miss  Jessie  Miller. 

Denver,  Colo  Miss  Grace  Maul. 

Detroit,  Mich  

Winchester.   Va  Miss  Dorothy  Karlson. 

Chicago.   Ill  Miss  Ina  Jackson. 

St.  Joseph,  Mo  Rev.  T.  F.  Stauffer, 

3414  Mitchell  Ave. 
Harbor  Mission  Hospice.  .Paul  H.  Land. 

New  York  Citv. 

107  E.  34th  St.. 


MISSIONS.  MISSIONARIES. 
HUNGARIAN 

Akron.  O  A.  Bakay. 

860  Coburn  St. 
Dayton,  O  Andrew  Kovach, 

1424  Blaine  St. 

Dillonvale,  O  Nicholas  Varkonyi. 

East  Chicago,  Ind  Stephen  Virag, 

4822  Kennedy  Ave. 
Gary,  Ind  Eugene  Boros, 

1306  Jackson  St. 

Homestead,  Pa  Alex.  Harsanyi. 

Johnstown,  Pa  Ernest  Porzsolt, 

224  Ninth  Ave. 
Lorain,  O  S.  Horvath, 

3036  Globe  Ave. 

Northampton,  Pa   _  , 

South  Norwalk,  Conn  Gabriel  Dokus. 

South  Chicago,  111  R.  H.  Von  Pompl. 

8506  Burley  Ave. 
Toledo,  O  Louis  Bogar, 

1946  Blakewell  St. 

Torrington-Hartford, 

Conn   „ 

Uniontown,    Pa  Andor  Harsanyi, 

69  S.  Gallatin  Ave. 

Whiting,  Ind  Stephen  Virag. 

BOHEMIAN 

Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa  Jaroslav  Stulc, 

383  15th  Ave.,  W. 

Chicago,  111  James  Dudycha, 

1138  S.  Lombard  Ave. 
Oak  Park,  111. 
JAPANESE 
San  Francisco.  Calif., 

1760  Post  St  J.  Mori. 

English  Teacher   

Kindergarten  Teacher  Miss  Lulu  Wiseman. 

Los  Angeles.  Calif  T.  Kaneko, 

202  N.  San  Pedro  St. 

English  Teacher   Miss  Marian  Shaley. 

JEWISH 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y  Geo.  H.  Wulfpen, 

125  Harrison  Ave. 

Phila,  Pa  Rev.  Immanuel  Gitel. 

Mrs.  Immanuel  Gitel. 
Miss  Ida  Peltz. 
1914  S.  6th  St. 
HUNGARIAN  DEACONESSES 

Bridgeport,  Conn  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Basso, 

227  Pine  St. 

Toledo,   O  Mrs.  Ida  Harsanyi. 

301  Whitemore  St. 

Homestead,  Pa  Mrs.  Helen  Hetey, 

P.  B.  199. 

Indiana  Harbor  &  Whit- 
ing. Ind  Miss  Irene  Virag. 


BOARD  OF  HOME  MISSIONS 
General  Fund  Receipts  for  September 

Synods—  1921  1920  Increase 

Eastern    $3,313.49 


Potomac    948.53 

Ohio    1,510.00 

Pittsburgh    1,306.44 

Interior    30.00 

German  of  the  East   192.00 

♦Central   

*Xorthwest    108.00 

•Southwest  

Jewish    39.83 

tW.  M.  S.  G.  S   895.40 

Y.  P.  S.  C.  E  

All  other  sources   176.13 


1920 
$3,889.05 
1,885.47 
1,850.00 

175.66 
235.11 
135.00 
106.27 

• '  15.66 
738.05 

"iVo'.si 


$1,306.44 


1.73 

'  24.83 
157.35 

5.59 


Decrease 
$575.56 
936.94 
340.00 

145.66 
43.11 
135.00 


Totals    $8,519.82     $9,199.49     $1,495.94  $2,175.61 

Decrease  for  the  month   $679.67 

*  For  Hungarian  and  Harbor  Missions  only. 

t  The  W.  M.  S.  gave  $75.60  additional  for  Church-building  Funds  and  other  causes. 


Foreign  Missions 

Allen  R.  Baetholomew,  Editor 


Let  Us  Pray  for  Peace 

'Teace  on  EartW  can  only  come  when 
all  men,  first  of  all,  will  ascribe,  "Glory  to 
God  in  the  Highest:'  It  is  therefore  of 
very  great  importance  that  Christians 
gather  daily  at  the  throne  of  grace  to  pour 
out  their  hearts  in  earnest  prayers  for  the 
peace  of  all  the  nations.  While  the  repre- 
sentatives from  many  nations  assemble  in 
the  conference  for  World  Disarmament  at 
Washington,  the  believers  in  the  one  true 
and  living  God  will  do  well  to  engage  in 
acts  of  worship,  for  only  as  the  Lord  will 
direct  men's  minds  and  hearts  can  we  look 
for  the  time  when  the  carnal  weapons  will 
give  place  to  the  spiritual.  We  suggest  the 
daily  use  of  the  two  following  prayers : 

"Almighty  God,  from  whom  all  thoughts 
of  truth  and  peace  proceed,  kindle,  we  pray 
Thee,  in  the  hearts  of  all  men  the  true  love 
of  peace,  and  guide  with  Thy  pure  and 
peaceable  wisdom  those  who  take  counsel 
for  the  nations  of  the  earth ;  that  in  tran- 
quility Thy  Kingdom  may  go  forward  till 
the  earth  is  filled  with  the  knowledge  of 
Thy  love,  through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 
Amen.'' 

"0  Almighty  God,  who  canst  bring  good 
out  of  evil  and  makest  even  the  wrath  of 
man  to  turn  to  Thy  praise ;  teach  Thy 
children  to  live  together  in  charity  and 
peace ;  and  grant,  we  beseech  Thee,  that  the 
.  nations  of  the  world  may  henceforth  be 
united  in  a  firmer  fellowship  for  the  pro- 
motion of  Thy  glory  and  the  good  of  all 
mankind,  through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 
Amen." 


An  Honor  to  Our  Church 

Two  North  Japan  College  men  are  at 
the  World  Disarmament  Conference  at 
Washington,  D.  C.  One  comes  as  an 
official  of  the  Embassy  there.  His  name  is 
Kawamura.  He  has  been  in  the  consular 
service  at  Shanghai  until  now.    He  is  a 


Christian  and  speaks  English  well.  The 
other  is  an  older  man,  and  is  managing 
editor  of  one  of  the  large  Tokyo  dailies,  the 
Yorozu  Choho.  He  is  a  Christian  also.  He 
will  stay  as  the  representative  of  his  paper 
throughout  the  conference.  He  has  been  a 
real  friend  of  our  institution  at  Sendai. 
Dr.  Schneder  has  notified  the  Secretary 
that  these  friends  bring  letters  of  introduc- 
tion.  We  shall  be  very  glad  to  meet  them. 


Help  from  a  Friend  at  Vancouver 

Before  Missionary  Karl  H.  Beck  left 
for  China  he  asked  the  Secretary  whether 
he  could  not  take  an  astronomical  outfit 
with  him  to  Shenchowfu.  Knowing  the 
lack  of  funds,  we  replied,  "Yes,"  but  fixed 
the  amount  to  be  invested  for  this  purpose. 
Now  Mr.  Beck  writes:  "I  had  occasion  to 
meet  a  gentleman  of  the  Royal  British 
Navigation  Service  who  heard  I  was  look- 
ing up  a  telescope  for  use  in  Central  China. 
After  a  very  enjoyable  chat  together  for  an 
hour  he  proposed  to  make  a  gift  of  a  good 
refiecting  telescope,  with  attachments  for 
astronomical  photography.  This  is  a  most 
desirable  machine  for  our  work,  and  per- 
haps better  than  anything  I  could  hope  to 
get  hold  of  with  funds  available.  Mr. 
Shearmen  puts  no  strings  to  the  gift.  He 
will  co-operate  with  us  in  our  astronomical 
work,  and  if  we  can  find  it  possible  to  make 
some  observations  for  him  from  time  to 
time,  he  may  put  us  in  the  way  of  greatly 
enlarged  facilities  in  the  future.  He  is 
doing  this  as  a  missionary  enterprise 
chiefiy.  He  is  a  Quaker."  Our  Church 
will  certainly  appreciate  this  generous 
donation.  Who  can  tell  what  influence  it 
may  exert  on  the  Chinese,  who  for  the  first 
time  will  have  the  opportunity  of  seeing 
"the  heavens"  which  "declare  the  glory  of 
God?" 


601 


502 


The  Outlook  of  Missions 


[NOVEMBEB 


Missionary  Paul  E.  Keller  writes :  "In 
Hunan  it  looks  as  though  we  should  have  a 
famine  this  autumn  and  winter.  We  had 
prospects  of  a  splendid  crop  of  rice,  but 
rain  held  off  so  long  just  before  ripening 
season  that  the  early  crop  is  almost  a  total 
loss.  What  the  later  crop  will  be  remains 
to  be  seen. 

"Very  likely  you  have  heard  that  on 
the  return  trip  from  Shenchow  we  were 
held  up  twice  by  bandits.  Of  course,  our 
escort  of  soldiers  drove  them  off.  Had  they 
been  American  soldiers  at  least  thirty  ban- 
dits would  have  paid  the  full  penalty,  but 
our  Chinese  soldiers  did  not  even  wound  a 
bandit.  This  may  be  the  wisdom  of  the 
soldiers,  but  it  does  not  inspire  respect  for 
the  army  neither  among  bandits  nor 
citizens."   

Our  Heartfelt  Sympathy 

As  the  China  Mission  was  convening 
for  its  annual  meeting  in  Shenchowfu  last 
July,  the  little  life  of  George  Frederick, 
infant  son  of  Rev.  and  Mrs.  J.  Frank 
Bucher,  went  home  to  the  Saviour  of  little 
children.  We  extend  our  deepest  sympa- 
thy. (The  picture  below  was  taken  dur- 
ing Mr.  Bucher's  furlough  in  America  two 
years  ago.)  


Ret.  and  Mrs.  J.  Frank  Bucher  and 
Children,  Shenchowfu,  China 


Another  Plea 

''We  have  just  received  news  of  the  new 
missionaries  who  are  listed  for  China — 
and  not  one  doctor  yet !  It  truly  is  a 
shame  that  among  the  hundreds  in  our 
church  there  is  not  one  young  doctor  to 
answer  the  great  need  and  the  call  of 
China  to  'come  over  and  help  us.'  It  can- 
not be  lack  of  faith,  and  surely  it  cannot 
be  that  they  have  never  read  nor  received 
Christ's  challenge  to  ever}^  Christian,  'Go 
ye.'  Why,  then,  do  they  all  remain  in  the 
homeland  struggling  for  a  'practice'  when 
out  here  thousands  suffer  and  those  who 
are  able  struggle,  in  their  last  strength,  to 
find  their  way  to  the  foreign  doctor,  hun- 
dreds of  miles  away? 

"Our  mission  at  Shenchow  has  no  doc- 
tor at  all,  although  we  have  hospital  work 
there,  and  Miss  Zierdt  has  gone  up  to  help 
Miss  Miller  with  the  nursing.  In  the 
Yochow  Station  there  is  one  doctor  trying 
to  do  the  work  of  several  men.  And  when 
Dr.  Adams'  furlough  comes  due,  there  will 
be  no  doctor  in  the  Yochow  station.  What 
is  the  matter  with  the  graduates  who  set 
out  to  become  doctors?  Surely  they  have 
not  weakened  in  their  decision  to  give  the 
bigger  service?  And  truly  it  is  the  big- 
ger service  to  go  where  the  need  is  many 
fold  greater  than  in  the  homeland.  How 
can  they  who  have  the  power  to  help  oth- 
ers, and  to  relieve  their  suffering,  how  caji 
they  withhold  it  from  these  people?" 

First  Response 

William  M.  Ankeney,  M.D.,  of  Xenia, 
Ohio,  a  graduate  of  the  Medical  School  of 
Western  Reserve  University,  Cleveland,  is 
the  first  surgeon  to  offer  his  services  for 
the  relief  of  the  tragic  situation  in  our 
China  Mission.  His  father  is  Hon.  Hor- 
ace Ankeney,  Vice-President  of  the  Board 
of  Foreign  Missions,  and  his  brother,  Rev. 
Alfred  Ankeney,  is  a  member  of  our  force 
in  Japan,  being  in  special  charge  of 
Aomori  Prefecture.  At  the  semi-annual 
meeting  of  the  Board,  November  1,  Dr. 
Ankeney  was  unanimously  elected  as  med-^ 
ical  missionary  to  China. 


1921] 


Foreign  Missions 


503 


An  Outlook  on  the  World 

THE  WORLD  today  is  one  vast  whis- 
pering gallery.  On  November  5 
President  Harding  sent  a  message  by 
the  new  radio  central  on  Long  Island  to 
virtually  all  the  people  of  the  world.  Is  it 
possible  that  Science  can  outdo  Religion 
in  the  transmission  of  good  news?  Has 
the  time  come  when  a  man  in  Washington 
is  able  to  do  what  Christ  wishes  to  be 
done,  to  carry  the  message  of  salvation 
unto  the  ends  of  the  earth? 

With  all  our  facilities  for  swift  travel 
o'er  land  and  sea,  with  all  the  pressure  of 
a  twentieth  century  missionary  propa- 
ganda brought  to  bear  upon  us,  how  little 
Christians  seem  to  realize  the  full  meaning 
of  that  Great  Command : — "Go  ye  into  all 
the  world  and  preach  the  Gospel  to  every 
creature."  In  this  final  message  our  Lord 
liad  in  mind  the  entire  race  of  man  as  the 
object  of  His  work.  Alas !  to  this  grand 
conception  neither  the  disciples  then,  nor 
the  Church  now,  has  ever  risen.  A  re- 
demption for  the  world  is  one  of  the  hard- 
est conceptions  of  the  average  believer  to 
grasp.  On  the  contrary  we  are  all  prone 
to  narrow  the  sphere  of  the  divine  grace 
and  to  limit  the  Holy  One  of  Israel. 

There  is  only  one  way  to  save  the  world 
and  that  is  by  the  way  of  the  Cross.  The 
world  is  weary  of  commerce  and  culture. 
The  world  is  weary  of  the  nostrums  of 
men.  The  world  has  gone  astray,  and 
seeks  a  guide  that  can  bring  it  back  in 
safety  to  the  fold  of  God. 

Is  it  not  true  that  the  human  mind  usu- 
ually  seeks  a  cure  for  the  ills  of  life  in 
temporal  remedies?  If  a  panic  overtakes 
the  nation  we  dream  of  financial  prosper- 
ity, forgetting  that  panics  are  caused  by 
spiritual  forces  rather  than  by  financial 
failures.  In  time  of  war  we  seek  victory 
througli  physical  power,  unmindful  of  the 
fact  that  the  true  weapons  of  warfare  are 
not  carnal,  but  spiritual.  A  sliort  time 
ago  our  fair  land  was  on  the  brink  of  a 
huge  railroad  strike,  and  tlie  chief  contest- 
ants in  the  fight  did  not  know  that  pros- 
perity is  the  result  of  righteousness, 
rather  than  of  raw  materials.  We  have 
just  bid  a  cordial  welcome  to  our  shores 
to  that  modest  but  brave  soldier.  General 
Diaz,  who  comes  as  a  member  of  the  Con- 
ference on  World  Disarmament,  and  all 


who  shall  participate  in  that  memorable 
gathering  will  do  well  to  share  in  his  be- 
lief "that  to  realize  world  peace  and  con- 
cord we  must  disarm,  not  only  in  weapons, 
but  also  in  the  spirit  and  the  passion  that 
make  for  war.'' 

Evidently  the  great  need  of  the  hour  is 
to  strengthen  the  human  foundation-,  the 
international  relations,  and  to  accomplish 
this  we  must  turn  to  the  Church,  the 
greatest  industry  in  the  world.  Yes,  the 
Church  is  the  greatest  industry  in  the 
world,  but  it  is  the  least  productive,  be- 
cause it  is  so  backward  in  its  development. 
If  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  could  only 
get  out  of  the  stagecoach  class,  and  apply 
to  the  limit  the  power  of  the  Spirit  of  God 
to  all  its  enterprises,  it  would  far  exceed  in 
speed  the  swiftest  steam  engine  and  elec- 
tric car.  This  world  will  never  be  won 
for  Christ  so  long  as  the  Hosannas  lan- 
guish on  the  tongues  of  Christians  and 
their  devotion  dies.  No  wonder  the 
prophet  of  old  said: — "Woe  unto  them 
that  are  at  ease  in  Zion." 


Armistice  Day 

GOD'S  PLAN  FOR  DISARMAMENT 
— Many  nations  shall  come,  and  say, 
Come,  and  let  us  go  up  unto  tlie  moun- 
tain of  the  Lord,  and  to  the  house  of  the 
God  of  Jacob,  and  he  will  teach  us  of  his 
ways,  and  we  will  walk  in  his  patlis. 

And  he  shall  judge  among  many  peo- 
ple, and  rebuke  strong  nations  afar  off; 
and  they  shall  beat  their  swords  into 
plouglishares,  and  tlieir  spears  into  prun- 
inghooks;  nation  sliall  not  lift  a  sword 
against  nation,  neitlier  shall  they  learn 
war  any  more. 

But  they  shall  sit  every  man  under  his 
vine  and  under  his  fig  tree ;  and  none  shall 
make  them  afraid :  for  the  mouth  of  the 
Lord  of  hosts  hath  spoken  it. — Micah  4: 
2-4. 


"ONE  FOR  YOUR  FRIEND" 

Many  new  friends  for  the  World- 
Wide  Work  of  the  Prince  of  Peace 
can  be  won  through  a  Subscription  to 
"The  Outlook  of  Missions"  presented 
by  you  at  Yuletide! 


504 


The  Outlook  of  Missions 


[November 


EVANGELISTIC  REPORT  OF  JAPAN  MISSION 


OUR  Evangelistic  work  has  reached 
such  proportions  that  it  is  very  diffi- 
cult for  any  one  to  survey  the  whole  situa- 
tion or  to  present  its  salient  features  in  a 
brief  report. 

Inspection  of  the  statistics  confirms  the 
general  impression  one  receives  by  direct 
observation,  that  the  churches  in  our 
northern  country  grow  very  slowly,  for 
reasons  that  have  often  been  stated. 

A  large  section  of  the  Japanese  public 
still  believes  the  missionary  movement  to 
be  political  propaganda  in  camouflage.  In 
such  an  atmosphere  of  mistrust  we  may 
be  thankful  if  we  but  hold  our  own.  In 
regard  to  this  matter.  Rev.  Jairus  P. 
Moore,  D.  D.,  our  senior  evangelistic  mis- 
sionary, says :  "I  have  been  much  impressed 
by  the  fact  that  in  spite  of  the  bitter  and 
unkind  things  written  in  some  of  the  Jap- 
anese newspapers  against  America  and 
Americans,  our  schools  should  be  over- 
crowded with  students,  our  churches  well 
attended  and  large  numbers  enrolled  as 
candidates  for  membership.  In  several 
places  in  Miyagi  Field  the  pastors  tell 
me  that  there  is  no  longer  any  opposition 
manifested,  but  that  the  whole  community 
shows  a  certain  amount  of  sympathy  and 
interest  in  the  work.  Also  contributions 
are  made  by  non-Christians  toward  the 
purchase  of  lots  and  houses  to  be  used 
for  church  purposes.  In  one  place  promi- 
nent non-Christians  should  have  said  that 
if  a  church  is  built  it  should  be  of  a  kind 
that  is  in  proper  keeping  with  the  place, 
and  they  have  intimated  that  when  the 
time  comes  they  are  willing  to  contribute 
toward  it.  If  the  feeling  on  the  part  of 
the  people  is  more  kindly  and  the  senti- 
ment more  favorable  than  before,  even  at 
a  time  when  so  much  is  being  said  against 
America  and  Americans  in  a  certain  sec- 
tion of  the  Japanese  press,  and  when 
efforts  are  being  made  in  certain  quarters 
to  revive  the  native  religion  of  Shinto,  how 
can  we  account  for  this  more  favorable 
attitude  toward  Christianity  ?  It  seems  to 
me  that  there  is  only  one  way  of  account- 
ing for  it,  namely,  that  the  unrest,  the 
mutterings  and  disorders  in  the  commer- 
cial, economic  and  social  world  of  Japan, 
have  set  serious  men  to  thinking,  and  that 


they  are  realizing  that  a  stabilizing  and 
satisfying  something  is  needed,  and  might 
not  this  be  the  new  religion  as  taught  by 
the  missionaries  in  their  midst.'^ 

One  favorable  factor  has  been  the  Sun- 
day School  Convention  held  in  Tokyo  last 
October,  which  exerted  a  profound 
influence  for  good. 

As  in  previous  years,  the  most  encourag- 
ing item  in  the  statistics  is  that  of  the 
contributions  of  Japanese  Christians, 
which  are  increasing  steadily  and  at  an 
accelerating  rate  As  compared  with  the 
previous  year  the  Japanese  offerings  grew 
from  $6604  to  $9817,  or  almost  50%. 
While  the  appropriations  of  the  Missions 
for  the  support  of  the  evangelistic  work 
have  been  increased  rapidly  in  recent 
years,  the  growth  on  the  Japanese  side 
is  still  more  rapid.  In  five  years,  the 
grants  of  the  Evangelistic  Committee  for 
local  purposes  have  mounted  by  134%,  but 
m  the  same  time  the  gifts  of  the  Japanese 
for  the  same  purposes  show  an  advance  of 
181%. 

The  problem  of  financing  the  work  has 
been  very  serious.  The  cost  of  living  once 
went  up  to  three  or  four  times  what  it  was 
before  the  war.  While  the  reaction  brought 
it  down  it  is  still  about  two  and  a  half 
times  what  it  was,  and  at  that  point  it 
seems  likely  to  stay  a  while.  Consequently 
the  day  of  cheap  evangelistic  work  has 
passed.  We  have  in  recent  years  about 
doubled  the  average  salary  of  the  ministers 
in  our  employ,  which  now  amounts  to 
$36.90  a  month.  A  recent  minute  investi- 
gation shows  that  this  figure  just  about 
covers  bare  living  expenses,  leaving  no 
margin  for  respectable  clothes,  for  the  edu- 
cation of  children  in  their  teens,  for  a 
case  of  sickness,  or  for  saving  against  any 
emergency.  It  is  the  unanimous  opinion 
of  those  in  charge  of  the  work  that  the 
average  salary  should  be  raised  to  about 
$50  a  month  at  the  earliest  possible  date. 

We  have  suffered  heavy  losses  in  men. 
The  vetei'an  pastor,  Ito-Tokichi,  long  at 
Morioka  and  later  at  Miyako,  has  in 
accordance  with  a  previous  agreement 
gone  to  rejoin  our  sister  Reformed  Mis- 
sion in  Kyushu,  and  is  now  serving  as  Mr. 
Hoekje's  helper  at  Kagoshima.  Three 


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younger  men  have  gone  to  America.  One 
was  drafted  into  the  army.  Pastor 
Kiyama-Kiyogoro,  of  Yonezawa,  on 
account  of  the  failing  health  of  Mrs. 
Kiyama,  has  retired  to  his  ancestral  estate 
on  the  island  of  Oshima.  One,  whose 
utterance  was  so  defective  that  people  com- 
plained of  inability  to  understand  his 
speech,  was  advised  to  seek  other  occupa- 
tion, which  he  did.  cheerfully,  becoming 
a  superintendent  of  a  mining  business. 
To  offset  these  losses  we  have  had  but  six 
accessions,  two  graduates  of  our  Sendai 
Seminary,  one  from  the  Presbyterian  Sem- 
inary in  Tokyo  (Meiji  Gakuin)  and  three 
from  other  Missions.  Considering  that 
Pastor  Tsuchida,  of  Akita,  has  been  called 
to  serve  at  headquarters,  and  Pastor  Tan 
of  Yamagata  is  about  to  go  to  America, 
that  there  are  six  other  vacancies,  and  that 
we  have  received  insistent  calls  to  open 
new  stations  of  great  promise  at  Noshiro 
and  Hon  jo  in  Akita  Prefecture,  we  have 
been  searching  for  workers  in  all  Japan, 
in  Manchuria  and  in  California.  It  is 
probable  that  when  more  adequate  salaries 
are  paid  and  some  equipment  is  provided, 
the  losses  will  decrease  and  more  young 
men  will  persevere  to  the  end  of  the  theo- 
logical course. 

As  everywhere  in  the  world,  the  housing 
problem,  too,  is  becoming  more  and  more 
serious.  Our  old  makeshift  policy  of  try- 
ing to  work  in  rented  quarters  is  in  not  a 
few  places  becoming  impracticable.  We 
are  pushed  back  into  the  byways  until  at 
last  we  find  ourselves  out  on  the  open 
street  or  out  in  the  open  country,  thus 
missing  our  best  opportunities  and  wast- 
ing the  energies  of  our  men. 

The  Conference  of  Evangelists  held  in 
Sendai,  in  April,  was  in  many  respects 
remarkable.  The  men  with  a  little  help 
from  their  various  churches  paid  their 
own  expenses  and  declined  financial  aid 
fronj  the  Mission  for  their  Conference. 
They  perfected  their  new  organization  and 
appointed  committees  to  realize  a  few 
definite  aims.  They  asked  the  Evangel- 
istic Committee  to  permit  longer  pastor- 
ates and  not  to  move  workers  about  so 
often;  they  asked  the  Women's  Evangel- 
ists' Committee  to  pay  the  women  workers 
more  adequate  salaries;  tliey  asked  the 
au^thorities  of  North  Japan  College  to 


appoint  a  pastor  for  the  students;  they 
asked  that  Evangelist  Momma,  who  has 
shown  rare  ability  as  editor  of  Ryou  no 
Ilikari  be  moved  to  Sendai  to  devote  him- 
self wholly  to  literary  work  in  the  inter- 
est of  this  Mission,  and  they  asked  Tohoku 
Classis  to  give  their  representatives  a  part 
in  the  management  of  the  Forward  Move- 
ment. It  was  a  treat  to  be  with  these  men, 
to  see  how  they  were  moved  by  the  evan- 
gelical zeal  and  virile  appeal  of  Evangelist 
Kimura-Seimatsu,  the  guest  of  honor  at 
the  Conference,  to  note  the  sterling  quali- 
ties of  their  own  chosen  leaders,  Kodaira, 
of  Tokyo;  Hagiwara  and  Kobayashi,  of 
Sendai;  Ashina,  of  Shiroishi,  and  last,  but 
not  least,  Nakamura,  of  Taira;  and  to 
observe  the  rising  tide  of  ability  and 
energy  in  the  whole  body.  In  this  group 
of  workers  we  have  an  asset  of  incalculable 
value  for  the  future  of  our  work. 

The  new  plan  provides  that  two  execu- 
tive secretaries  shall  serve  in  the  office  of 
the  Board.  These  two  are  Rev.  K.  Tsuch- 
ida and  the  writer  of  tliis  report.  The 
appointment  of  the  former  was  a  great 
blow  to  all  our  work  in  Akita  City  and 
Prefecture;  but  the  only  way  to  obtain  a 
suitable  man  for  headquarters  was  to  rob 
some  such  place.  Mr.  Tsuchida  is  a  man 
of  deep  consecration,  good  judgment  and 
rare  tact.  We  commend  him  to  your  confi- 
dence. The  new  secretaries  are  to  tour  the 
field  alternately,  to  gather  and  file  infor- 
mation, to  distribute  it  to  all  concerned,  to 
oversee  distribution  of  literature  and 
equipment,  and  in  general  to  carry  out  the 
orders  of  the  Board  and  its  sub-committees, 
Tlie  two  secretaries  have  also  been  asked  to 
serve  the  Department  of  Publicity  of  the 
Forward  Movement  inaugurated  by  the 
Chissis  of  Nortli  Japan. 

This  movement,  which  is  due  largely  to 
the  stimulus  afforded  by  the  visit  of  Dr. 
Lampe,  is  now  gaining  in  momentum. 

With  this  hopeful  forward  look,  and  a 
prayer  that  the  Church  at  home  will  have 
the  patience  to  carry  its  share  of  tlie  heavy 
load  until  the  Church  hero  can  assume  a 
larger  sliare  of  it. 

For  the  Joint  Evangelistic  Board, 

Respectfully  submitted, 

Christopher  Xoss, 
American  Secretary. 


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[XOVEMBER 


Through  the  kindness  of  Dr.  Allen  K.  Faust  we  received  these  photographs  of  the 
tombstone  of  our  sainted  missionar}',  Miss  Mary  Vornholt.  The  pictures  were  taken  at  a 
service  which  was  held  in  June  at  the  grave,  just  after  the  stone  had  been  erected. 
The  money  for  the  stone  was  contributed  by  members  of  our  Japan  Mission,  by  the 
Miyagi  Girls'  School  and  by  relatives.  It  is  a  beautiful  granite  stone,  solid  and  durable, 
thus  typifying  Miss  Vornholt's  character.  A  large  number  of  teachers  and  students 
attended  the  service.  The  grave  overlooks  the  city,  and  the  stone  faces  towards  the 
Girls'  School.    "Though  dead,  she  yet  speaketh." 


1921] 


Foreign  Missions 


507 


Letters  of  Dr.  Hoy 

V 

Huping  College,  Yochow  City, 
Hunan,  China, 
August  12,  1921. 
Dear  Friends  in  the  Eeformed  Church : — 

During  the  special  work  among  the  out- 
stations  it  was  not  for  a  moment  supposed 
that  all  duties,  relations  and  services  at 
Lakeside  should  be  dropped.  Let  us, 
therefore,  look  in  upon  a  Communion 
Service  held  at  Lakeside.  There  are  six- 
teen persons  to  be  baptized.  These  must 
be  carefully  examined  in  faith,  knowledge, 
motive  and  character.  The  pastors,  elders 
and  deacons  enter  most  carefully  into  all 
the  required  details  and  leave  nothing  un- 
done that  can  be  done  to  safeguard  the 
name  of  the  Church.  Happily  in  this  ex- 
amination the  applicants  are  all  well 
known  and  have  been  under  observation 
and  in  our  fellowship  for  a  number  of 
years.  At  the  same  time,  however,  we  are 
well  aware  that  we  cannot  see  into  the 
hearts  of  the  men  and  women  before 
us.  The  most  searching  questions  are 
answered  without  any  reservation  what- 
soever and  frankness  seems  to  be  the  order 
of  this  examination.  Then  comes  a  season 
of  earnest  prayer  and  all  partake  of  the 
sanctity  of  the  occasion.  These  people 
are  taking  the  most  important  step  of 
their  lives;  and  they  need  to  walk  with 
God  day  by  day. 

The  preparatory  services  are  usually 
fully  attended  and  they  are  led  by  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Spiritual  Council.  I  have  never 
attended  more  earnest  meetings  anywhere 
than  these  in  the  Huping  Congregation. 
The  reason  why  we  are  assembled  in  holy 
meeting  to  prepare  for  the  Holy  Commu- 
nion is  always  keenly  felt  with  us;  and 
the  quiet  reading  of  Scripture,  the  sing- 
ing of  appropriate  hymns,  and  voluntary 
prayers  from  all  parts  of  the  Chapel  help 
us  to  sense  the  real  spiritual  presence  of 
God  and  His  holiness.  Then  the  Holy 
Spirit  leads  us  into  a  self-examination 
that  lays  our  hearts  bare  before  our  Lord 
of  Whose  pardon  and  peace  we  so  freely 
partake.  This  is  a  blessed  hour  to  all. 
Our  Lord  and  Our  God  will  cleanse  us  for 
His  Table  and  the  benefits  thereof. 

The  Lakeside  congregation  observes  the 


Holy  Sacrament  of  the  Lord's  Supper  four 
times  a  year.  It  may  be  taken  for  granted 
that  many  of  the  members  have  learned  by 
helpful  experiences  to  enter  into  the  best 
spirit  of  these  services.  To  meet  with  the 
Lord  around  His  Table  becomes  to  the 
devout  worshipper  the  HOLY  OF 
HOLIES. 

After  a  suitable  sermon  has  been 
preached,  the  applicants  for  baptism 
gather  around  the  altar;  and  wist  ye  not 
that  He  who  gave  the  authority  to  baptize 
is  here  too?  Then  what  the  pastor  is 
about  to  do,  let  it  be  done  as  in  His  very 
presence  with  special  spirit  and  unction 
from  on  high.  Man's  service  is  seconded 
by  the  invisible  means  and  work  of  divine 
grace.  When  you  administer  baptism  do 
you  not  visualize  the  Master  with  you,  by 
your  side? 

The  Lord's  Table  in  the  Lakeside  Con- 
gregation !  One  by  one  have  some  of  us 
seen  these  twice-born  souls,  nearly  one 
hundred  of  them,  come  over  to  the  Lord's 
side.  There  have  been  hours  of  bitter 
anxiety  over  the  second  birth,  nurture  and 
growth  of  these  children  of  the  Father. 
Who  would  not  love  them  in  the  Lord ;  and 
do  his  best  to  serve  them  at  the  Lord's 
Table  with  the  best  Bread  of  Life  he  can 
hand  from  God  to  the  souls  now  in  special 
communion?  Do  we  not  stand  on  holy 
ground?  Do  not  the  Children  in  China 
ask  for  the  Best  BREAD  OF  GOD  that 
you  can  give  them?  Will  you  give  them 
stones;  because  you  can  carelessly  gather 
the  stones,  while  it  takes  your  very  life 
blood  to  make  the  BREAD  and  in  God 
give  it  to  them  ? 

And  now  a  thankoffering  is  taken  for 
famine  relief  and  for  the  China  Home 
Mission  Board.  The  contributions  denote 
a  growing  spirit  of  public  liberality  on  the 
part  of  the  members  of  the  Church  of 
Christ  here. 

Friends,  you  have  helped  in  all  the  work 
that  has  been  required  to  gather  this  con- 
gregation at  Lakeside.  Here  are  some 
souls  who  truly  love  the  Lord  and  try  to 
serve  Him.  The  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Secretaries 
like  to  come  here  on  account  of  the  special 
Christian  atmosphere  they  find  in  this 
place  of  active  work.  Neither  you  nor  I 
will  ever  be  able  to  see  all  that  this  congre- 


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[November 


gation  means  unto  our  blessed  Master  and 
how  He  is  going  to  use  these  souls  for  His 
Kingdom  in  China.  But  this  is  only  one 
little  corner  of  the  great  service  He  is 
asking  of  you  in  this  wonderful  land,  the 
greatest  missionary  opportunity  of  any 
age. 

Sincerely  yours, 
William  Edwin  Hoy. 

VI 

August  18,  1921. 
Dear  Friends  in  the  Eef ormed  Church : — 
In  writing  of  an  evangelistic  trip  to 
Yochow  Port,  one  must  speak  of  the  diffi- 
culties of  the  work  in  that  place.  Let  us 
refer  to  the  case  of  Bodhidharma,  who 
came  from  India  to  China,  and  tried  to 
convert  the  Emperor  Wu  Ti  of  the  Liang 
dynasty;  but,  failing  in  his  attempt, 
because  he  insisted  that  real  merit  lay  not 
in  works  but  in  purity  and  wisdom  com- 
bined, he  retired  full  of  mortification  to 
a  temple  on  Sung-shan,  where  he  sat  for 
nine  years  before  a  rock,  until  his  own 
image  was  imprinted  thereon.  Truly  he 
who  sits  with  his  face  to  the  wall  must 
rely  upon  those  spiritual  forces  which  can 
melt  the  hardest  hearts.  Even  in  a 
materialistic  sense,  geology  is  witness  to 
the  metamorphism  of  the  rocks.  One  of 
the  great  Roman  Catholic  pioneers  of 
China  Missions  cried  out — "0  Rock,  Rock, 
when  wilt  Thou  open?"  Today  the 
Impossible  is  the  Possible.  In  this  is 
manifest  the  Might  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

Yochow  Port  is  a  strong  seat  of  com- 
merce and  navigation.  Here  is  a  Custom 
House  manned  by  foreigners  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Central  Government.  It  is 
through  these  foreigners  that  we  obtain 
information  which  the  newspapers  have 
not  enterprise  enough  to  collect.  Mind 
you,  some  of  this  would  open  the  eyes  of 
the  world  to  the  subtle  forces  against 
which  the  better  class  of  Chinese  and  the 
missionaries  must  continually  contend. 
Here  converge  the  two  mighty  streams  of 
boat  traffic  from  Changsha  and  beyond 
and  from  Changteh  and  the  regions  much 
farther  inland.  Influences  that  corrupt 
and  harden  the  moral  nature  of  men  are  at 
work  night  and  day. 

At  this  Port  we  have  a  Day  School  for 
boys  and  a  Chapel,  with  rooms  for  teachers 


and  the  evangelist.  All  this  makes  a  large 
property  which  is  under  one  roof.  This 
building  is  itself  a  silent  witness  to  Him 
Whom  we  serve  in  Church  and  School. 
From  these  two  agencies  of  Christian 
effort  go  forth  streams  of  grace  that  are 
like  unto  a  mighty  leaven.  Possess  thy  soul 
in  the  patience  that  wins  the  day. 

We  have  had  some  earnest  preachers 
and  teachers  in  the  Port  Chapel.  A  num- 
ber of  good  students  have  come  from  this 
school  to  Lakeside  and  the  small  congre- 
gation is  not  to  be  despised  in  the  day  of 
small  beginnings.  These  two  branches  ot 
our  work  and  the  individual  evangelists, 
teachers  and  pupils  as  well  as  the  members 
of  the  Chapel  in  that  difficult  place  are 
carried  on  our  hearts  to  God  in  daily 
prayers  that  breathe  forth  our  very  souls 
in  pain. 

Here  we  are.  We  came  down  this  Sun- 
day morning  in  the  community  boat  from 
Lakeside,  calling  at  Yochow  City  for  Bro. 
Whitener,  without  whom  I  go  nowhere 
these  Sundays.  The  Church  members  and 
the  School  have  been  waiting  for  us.  They 
always  seemed  cheered  by  our  presence. 
It  is  the  powerful  fellowship  of  universal 
brotherhood  in  Christ  Jesus  that  helps 
these  men,  women  and  children  to  persevere 
in  the  way  of  the  Lord  which  is  beset  with 
many  dangers  and  hardships  for  them. 
All  praise  to  their  faith  and  steadfastness. 


Mrs.  Hoy  and  Her  Granddaughters, 
Ruth  and  Edle  Kiaer 


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509 


To  change  our  first  figure  of  the  rock, 
they  cling  to  the  Rock  that  is  higher  than 
they. 

These  people  love  the  hour  of  Holy 
Service.  They  love  to  sing  and  pray,  to 
meet  in  the  special  presence  of  God.  As 
they  receive  new  instruction  and  the 
refershing  sense  of  the  truth  as  it  is  in 
our  Saviour,  they  feel  stronger  for  the  life 
of  another  week.  They  know  it  is  good 
to  be  hpre  in  God's  House. 

Look  at  those  boys.  See  their  faces 
light  up  with  interest  and  pleasure,  as  the 
preacher  pauses,  now  and  then,  in  his 
sermon  on  Perfection,  and  asks  them 
questions,  using  the  blackboard  to  illus- 
trate the  theme.  Yes !  they  can  under- 
stand when  the  theme  is  applied  to  their 
lessons  and  grades.  Now  is  the  time  to 
ask  them  to  apply  the  same  to  their  daily 
conduct.  Who  can  help  them?  Who  is 
waiting  to  help  them?  Who  is  ever  will- 
ing to  help  them?  JESUS.  And  who 
does  not  know  that  when  the  boys  are 
interested  their  parents  are  not  asleep  in 
the  pew?  We  are  all  the  better  for  keep- 
ing awake. 

With  all  your  personal  and  social  prob- 
lems, little  congregation  at  the  Port,  am 
I  in  the  fullest  sympathy.  Yours  is  a 
great  opportunity  to  let  the  light  that  is 
come  into  your  lives  so  shine  that  others 
may  be  shown  the  way.  Thousands  and 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  boats  pass  your 
Port  every  year.  Shine  out  upon  the 
waves,  and  your  Father  in  Heaven  shall 
be  glorified. 

Sincerely  yours, 
William  Edwin  Hoy. 

VII 

August  25,  1921. 
Dear  Friends  in  the  Reformed  Church : — 
In  the  dark  of  the  night  we  will  walk 
from  Lakeside  along  the  railroad  to 
Yochow  City,  thus  setting  out  upon  the 
first  stage  of  our  trip  to  Niehkiashih. 
Will  the  train  be  on  time?  No  one  can 
tell.  Of  course  there  is  a  schedule  time 
fixed;  but  we  may  have  to  wait  for  hours 
before  the  engine's  dim  headliglit  can  be 
seen  coming  around  the  curve.  You  may 
ask  the  station  master  about  the  arrival  of 
the  train.  You  are  not  likely  to  get  much 
information.   Your  question,  however,  has 


opened  the  way  for  a  friendly  invitation 
to  come  into  his  room  and  rest;  for  there 
is  no  general  passenger  waiting  room  in 
the  equipment  of  this  railroad.  When  I 
started  last  year  on  my  long  journey  to 
attend  the  General  Synod,  a  number  of  us 
were  invited  into  the  bedroom  of  one  of 
the  men.  Mr.  Reimert  for  a  while  sat  on 
one  of  the  beds,  which  is  quite  the  proper 
thing  to  do  in  China.  Presently  he 
jumped  up  and  shook  off  some  of  China's 
millions.  Ah !  that  was  the  last  good 
laugh  I  had  with  him,  and  he  was  a  jolly 
good  fellow.  That  night's  laugh  still 
remains  with  me.   It  was  a  touch  of  life. 

There's  the  light  of  the  locomotive! 
There  is  no  shout  of  "All  aboard."  That 
is  never  given  on  this  road.  Stand  not  on 
the  order  of  your  going  into  the  train. 
Everybody  for  himself.  No  one  waits  for 
those  who  are  coming  out.  Scramble, 
scramble  !  Push,  push  !  There  the  pick- 
pocket is  busy.  You  do  not  deserve  much 
sympathy;  for  in  your  greed  to  get  in 
first,  before  any  one  could  get  a  chance  to 
alight,  you  pushed  weaker  men  and  women 
rudely  aside. 

Third  class  accommodations  to  stand  for 
a  few  hours.  They  also  run  who  stand  and 
wait.  Learn  to  sleep  on  foot.  You'll  not 
need  any  poor  pillow. 

Here  is  Wulipai.  I  see  the  landlord  of 
yonder  inn.  He  has  a  son  in  the  Lakeside 
institution.  As  a  matter  of  course  we 
receive  the  closest  attention.  Presently 
"I  lay  me  down  to  sleep"  a  few  hours  on 
the  dirty  floor.  The  soldiers  have  exclu- 
sive use  of  the  few  beds  of  the  small  inn. 
Happy  dreams ! 

Early  in  the  morning  we  take  a  hurried 
and  scanty  breakfast  and  then  off  to  Nieh- 
kiashih. Two  men  to  a  light  wicker  chair 
and  we  travel  on  in  gay  spirits.  The 
chair-bearers  are  in  fine  humor  and  engage 
in  conversation  with  their  passenger ;  and 
it  is  surprising  to  notice  how  much  infor- 
mation one  can  pick  up  in  this  way 
through  the  Henry  Ward  Beecher  method 
of  riding  with  the  engineer.  My  two  men 
ask  a  few  questions  about  Jesus.  We  point 
to  Him. 

There  arc  the  teachers  and  pupils  of  the 
Day  School  and  also  the  evangelist  with 
some  of  the  members  and  inquirers.  These 


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[November 


have  come  to  meet  us  and  greet  us.  All 
the  way  to  the  Chapel  there  is  heard  the 
din  of  firecrackers. 

At  the  Chapel  we  hope  to  rest  a  while 
and  then  have  our  dinner.  No :  that  can- 
not be.  See  this  crowd  of  men,  women 
and  children.  They  have  all  come  to  hear 
you  preach.  We  cannot  keep  them  wait- 
ing. Some  of  them  have  come  more  than 
fifteen  miles  and  must  go  home  early  in 
the  afternoon.  Without  a  moment  to  rest 
we  are  literally  from  the  chair  into  the 
pulpit.  Tired  as  you  are,  you  forget  it  all 
in  the  knowledge  of  the  circumstances  of 
this  gathering.  You  stand  between  them 
and  God.  May  He  give  the  message  this 
noonday  service ;  and  we  know  He  is  not 
far  from  us.  Preaching  in  God's  presence 
and  conscious  of  His  yearning  for  these 
people,  you  forget  self  and  let  Him  use 
you.  Then  come  the  invitations  to  visit 
the  various  villages  represented  here.  Oh ! 
these  open  doors  and  no  one  to  take  up 
all  these  great  opportunities ! 

The  next  day,  Sunday,  the  evangelist's 
wife  and  little  daughter  are  baptized. 
Then  follows  Communion.  In  this  little 
band  of  Christians  there  are  several,  I  am 
told,  who  are  making  good  progress  in 
their  new  life  in  Jesus. 


The  gentry  come  later  in  the  day  to  ask 
that  we  procure  a  better  place  for  our 
Chapel  and  Day  School.  Some  of  these 
may  have  mixed  motives  in  thus  coming 
forward  and  showing  personal  interest  in 
the  matter;  but  it  is  a  help  to  the  cause. 
A  new  property  has  recently  been  pur- 
chased ;  and  the  Christians  and  the  people 
of  Niehkiashih  are  the  happier  for  the 
greater  hopes  thus  raised. 

On  our  way  home  we  whistle  as  we  used 
to  do  when  we  went  fishing  with  father. 

Sincerely  yours, 
William  Edwin  Hoy. 


On  the  Way  to  China 

Our  missionary,  Eev.  J.  W.  Owen  and 
family,  spent  part  of  their  furlough  with 
relatives  in  Wales.  He  made  a -number  of 
unsuccessful  efforts  to  secure  passage  from 
Liverpool  to  Shanghai,  via  the  Suez 
Canal,  but  without  avail.  At  last,  driven 
to  the  point  of  desperation,  the  Secretary 
made  a  final  attempt  through  the  Canadian 
Pacific  Steamship  Company,  and  he  was 
successful.  The  whole  affair  was  so 
quickly  done  that  the  agent  at  the  Liver- 
pool offices  was  unaware  of  what  had  trans- 
pired, but  Mr.  Owen  told  him,  "You  see, 


Rev.  John  W.  Owen  and  Family,  Who  Have  Returned  to  Huping  College, 
YocHow  City,  China.  After  Furlough 


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our  American  friends  are  able  to  do  with 
comparative  ease,  what  you  regard  as  im- 
possible over  here/'  Well,  Brother  Owen 
and  his  family  are  now  on  their  way  to 
Yochow  City  and  he  says:  "We  are  so 
glad  that  God  has  opened  up  the  way  for 
us  to  return  to  the  work  to  which  He  in 
His  grace  called  us  years  ago." 

Another  Letter  from  Dr.  Adams 

Yochow  City,  China, 

August  5,  1921. 

Dear  Friends : 

We  are  at  war  again.  A  week  ago  the 
forces  of  our  Province  of  Hunan  were 
launched  suddenly  against  the  neighbor 
Province  of  Hupeh.  For  what  reason? 
Who  knows?  The  poor  soldiers  do  not 
know  for  what  they  are  fighting  and  giv- 
ing up  their  lives;  the  poor  country  peo- 
ple and  townsfolk  know  not  what  it 
means,  save  that  they  are  torn  from  their 
homes  and  work,  to  carry  heavy  loads  for 
the  soldiers !  It  may  involve  the  whole 
of  China  in  war.  The  "leaders"  do  not 
know  what  to  do,  or  what  sides  to  take — ■ 
for  they  are  blind  leaders  of  the  blind.  So 
we  just  go  on  with  our  work  and  wait  to 
see  what  the  outcome  will  be.  Paul  said : 
"One  thing  I  do."  I  like  to  divide  it  into 
two  parts,  according  to  James  4:  7,  and 
these  two  things  I  do,  and  try  to  relate 
them  to  all  things.  So  we  are  trying  to 
salvage  men  out  of  the  deviPs  work.  Slay 
your  prayers  be  with  us  effectively,  James 
5:16,  "working-prayers,"  or  prayers  that 
work. 

Here  is  a  captain,  wounded  in  the  foot. 
An  opportunity  presenting  itself,  I  had 
a  talk  with  him  for  a  couple  of  hours  one 
evening,  and  as  tlie  Lord  had  already 
prepared  his  heart  he  took  in  the  truth 
and  decided  for  Christ,  lie  is  such  a 
contrast  to  the  lieutenant  who  was  here 
for  such  a  long  time,  but  obdurate  to  the 
truth,  saying  yes,  yes  with  the  mouth,  but 
evidently  not  taking  it  to  heart.  Another 
captain  was  brought  in,  shot  through  the 
bowels;  a  man  of  fine  appearance  and 
intelligence.  His  condition  was  critical, 
as  he  had  been  shot  the  day  before.  We 
had  a  talk  with  him  and  prayer  before 
giving  the  anaesthetic,  and  then  repaired 
the  wounds  of  the  intestine.    He  seems  to 


he  doing  well,  and  we  are  lioping  for  his 
recovery — at  least  that  he  will  learn  to 
know  the  Lord.  Another  man,  a  young 
fellow  of  nineteen,  shot  through  the  shoul- 
der, lungs  and  the  spinal  cord,  the  lower 
half  of  the  body  paralyzed  and  slow  death 
before  him.  Had  a  talk  with  him  and 
tried  to  explain  a  little  of  what  prayer 
meant.  Gave  him  a  little  prayer  to  re- 
peat: "Oh,  Jesus,  help  me  to  understand 
the  True  God,"  but  he  forgot  it  and  did 
not  understand  very  well.  So  I  added  the 
second  item,  "and  help  me  to  resist  the 
evil  spirits."  Then  he  got  on  better.  I 
gave  him  a  New  Testament,  and  he  and 
his  brother  are  reading,  and  he  is  trying 
out  that  prayer  for  today.  In  the  West 
few  believe  in  the  power  of  evil  spirits, 
but  they  are  very  real  factors  to  be  reck- 
oned with  and  dealt  with  effectively.  God 
is  Spirit,  and  so  is  Satan,  and  we  are  priv- 
ileged to  partake  in  this  great  war.  The 
angel-fighting  spoken  of  in  Daniel  is  no 
myth;  it  is  genuine  fighting.  Paul  says 
we  wrestle  against  the  spirits  of  the  air, 
under  their  great  prince.  I  have  learned 
some  things  since  coming  to  China  which 
we  are  never  taught  at  home.  So  I  watch 
each  case  with  deep  interest  and  try  to 
counter  the  enemy  according  to  the  fight 
he  wages  in  each  case.  Sometimes  we  are 
perfectly  helpless ;  forces  insufficient,  etc. ; 
but  some  of  our  helpers  have  been  making 
progress  and  are  real  prayer-warriors. 
There  was  a  picture  of  one  of  them  in 
The  Outlook  of  Missions  not  long  ago. 
I  may  write  of  him  also,  sometime,  but 
could  not  do  him  justice  anyway.  lie  is 
pure  gold.  Fifty  cars  of  wounded  soldiers 
passed  through  here  on  the  way  to  Chang- 
sha.  Several  thousand  have  been  wounded 
or  killed.  Our  man  with  the  heart  on 
the  right  side  is  doing  well,  although  the 
left  lung  is  destroyed. 

Yours  in  service, 

W.  F.  Adams. 


512 


The  Outlook  of  Missions 


[November 


Life  in  a  Buddhist  Temple 

[The  following  account  was  written  several 
years  ago  by  a  very  earnest  young  Christian 
who  received  baptism  from  the  late  Rev.  H.  H. 
Cook  and  is  now  a  student  in  the  Imperial 
University,  Tokyo.  The  manuscript  was  given 
to  the  Rev.  Paul  F.  Scliaffner,  who  was  then 
attending  the  Japanese  Language  School  in 
Tokyo  and  together  with  this  young  man  teach- 
ing in  the  Sunday  school  of  our  ^abu  congre- 
gation in  Tokyo.] 

THE  temple  I  lived  in  was  a  large  one 
in  Tokyo.  It  is  different  from  the 
common  temple.  To  explain,  there  are 
many  shrines  in  Japan,  and  the  services 
and  other  works  of  them  are  generally 
done  by  Shinto  priests,  but  there  are  some 
shrines  which  do  not  belong  to  Shintoism, 
but  to  Buddhism.  And  the  shrine  or 
temple  I  lived  in  was  of  this  kind.  No 
funeral  ceremony  is  ever  held  there,  and 
man  or  woman  who  is  even  in  mourning 
cannot  visit  this  temple. 

Thorough  the  interest  of  a  friend  of 
mine,  whose  uncle  is  a  Buddhist  priest  of 
another  temple,  I  became  a  resident  of 
this  temple  for  a  short  time.  Though 
his  uncle  and  aunt  were  very  kind  to  me, 
I  could  not  help  feeling  uneasy  when  for 
the  first  time  I  went  there,  where  a  quite 
different  religion  is  believed  and  when  I 
thought  that  it  is  only  I  that  believe  in  the 
Heavenly  Father.  No  one  knew  that  I 
was  a  Christian,  but  by  the  time  I  left 
there  some  of  the  priests  seemed  to  have 
come  to  know  about  it.  And  two  or 
three  years  ago,  when  I  went  to  church 
for  the  first  time  for  service — not  for  the 
service,  but  rather  out  of  curiosity — I  felt 
very  strange  about  the  house,  about  the 
Bible,  and  most  of  all  about  Mr.  Cook,  a 
foreigner.  Now  I  had  a  similar  feeling  in 
the  Buddhist  temple. 

Going  into  the  house  I  found  several 
men,  young  and  old,  some  in  white  clotiies, 
some  in  common  dress.  I  heard  that  the 
men  in  white  clothing  were  all  priests, 
among  whom  there  were  some  students  of 
a  Buddhist  University.  When  I  went  into 
the  room  they  stared  at  me,  and  one  of 
the  priests,  an  elderly  man,  asked  me 
several  questions  about  my  occupation,  my 
education,  my  future  purpose  and  how 
long  I  would  stay  there.  I  was  glad  they 
did  not  ask  my  belief.  Going  farther  I 
came  in  front  of  the  Superior.    One  of 


the  priests  who  took  me  made  a  very 
humble  bow  and  I  followed  his  example. 
I  learned  there  were  about  twenty  men  in 
this  temple,  among  whom  about  eight  were 
priests.  My  first  impression  there  was  of 
the  largeness  and  the  splendor  of  the 
temple  and  the  house  (these  two  being 
separated).  There  were  about  twenty 
rooms  in  all,  and  a  beautiful  garden. 

From  the  next  day  I  was  to  sweep  the 
house  every  morning.  Now  to  sweep  was 
not  easy,  because  there  were  so  many 
rooms.  Four  rooms  were  used  by  the 
Superior  alone.  Every  morning  the 
Superior  went  up  to  the  temple  for  prayer, 
and  when  he  was  going  to  do  so  I  had  to 
beat  a  large  drum  as  a  sign,  spread  a  mat 
on  the  passage,  open  the  gate,  prepare  his 
shoes,  and  keep  making  humble  bows  at 
the  porch  while  he  passed.  I  had  to  do 
the  same  thing  when  he  returned  from  the 
temple.  Moreover,  I  had  to  see  the 
visitors,  and  answer  the  telephone.  I 
found  it  very  unpleasant  when  visitors 
came  at  midnight  after  I  was  in  bed. 
There  were  four  boys  in  the  temple. 
In  the  evening  they  came  to  me  to  study, 
and  I  taught  them  English,  Japanese, 
Chinese  classics  and  arithmetic.  I 
intended  to  take  the  entrance  examina- 
tions of  a  certain  school,  so  I  studied  Eng- 
lish very  hard.  They  thought  I  was  very 
good  at  English,  although  I  am  not,  and 
one  of  the  boys  was  kind  enough  to  show 
me  English  books  in  the  temple.  I  was 
very  glad  when  I  found  among  them  an 
English  Bible;  I  don^t  know  who  had  it. 
Not  so  long  after  this  I  found  a  Japanese 
New  Testament  and  another  Bible.  One 
day  I  was  singing  an  English  hymn,  and 
listening  to  it  one  of  the  boys  eagerly 
asked  me  to  teach  it  to  him.  I  hesitated  a 
while,  but  he  was  so  eager  that  I  taught 
it  to  him  in  English.  It  was  the  hymn, 
"Anywhere  with  Jesus  I  can  safely  go." 
He  never  ceased  singing  it  while  doing 
his  work,  even  in  the  Superior's  room. 

I  went  there  on  the  fifteenth  day  of  No- 
vember, and  it  was  already  getting  cold. 
At  the  end  of  the  year  we  were  busy 
repairing  the  window  paper  and  making 
new  tatami  (mats).  Then  the  year-end 
presents  and  the  New  Year  presents  were 
very  abundant.    Sometimes  five  hundred 


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513 


yen  ($250)  were  presented  to  the  temple, 
and  in  that  case  the  Superior's  portion 
was  two  hundred  yen  ($100),  priests'  gen- 
erally about  fifty  yen  ($25),  and  I  had 
only  half  a  yen  (25  cents)  as  mine.  As 
the  new  year  presents,  the  Japanese  ten- 
ugui  (towel)  or  furushiki  (piece  of  cloth 
in  which  everything  portable  is  wrapped 
in  Japan)  are  used;  and  in  about  ten  days 
I  had  many  towels — far  more  than  I 
could  use. 

On  the  last  night  of  the  year  a  few 
priests  and  I  had  to  sit  up  tlie  whole 
night  and  wait  for  possible  visitors.  As 
the  night  advanced  the  number  of  visitors 
decreased,  and  by  and  by  when  the  priests 
thought  no  one  would  come  any  more, 
they  became  tired  and  hungry.  Then 
some  of  the  priests  asked  me  to  go  to  the 
kitchen  and  bring  a  bottle  of  wine.  Some 
went  to  the  town  and  bought  oysters  and 
octopuses,  of  which  they  are  very  fond. 
They  ate  and  drank.  Now  they  drink 
almost  openly,  but  they  are  forbidden  to 
eat  fish  meat  or  anything  like  it.  And  if 
a  priest  should  break  this  commandment 
he  is  called  namakusa  hozu  (an  unclean 
priest).  Just  then  sounds  of  footsteps 
were  heard  at  the  porch,  then  silence,  and 
the  sounds  were  lost.  Some  hid  their 
dishes  behind  the  desk,  some  under  the 
mat,  and  I  pushed  the  bottle  near  at  hand 
into  my  pocket  because  I  knew  it  would 
prove  their  disgrace.  Unfortunately  that 
bottle  overturned  in  my  pocket,  and  my 
new  suit  got  very  wet.  The  next  morn- 
ing the  many  good  people  came  to  worship 
the  Buddha,  respecting  the  priests,  know- 
ing nothing  about  the  scene  of  the 
previous  night. 

Now  I  will  write  the  Superior's  daily 
program.  He  got  up  at  about  eight  in  the 
winter.  As  soon  as  he  gets  up  he  has  a 
bath,  and  without  taking  breakfast  goes 
up  to  the  temple  for  prayer.  About  two 
hours  after  he  comes  down  from  the  tem- 
ple, and  entering  his  own  rooms  he  has 
dinner.  I  think  this  is  his  only  task.  It 
is  very  seldom  that  he  is  at  home  in  the 
afternoon  and  takes  his  supper  in  the 
house.  He  goes  out  in  the  afternoon  and 
I  don't  know  where.  He  usually  returns 
home  at  midnight,,  sometimes  intoxicated 
sometimes  not. 


To  speak  of  prayer  there  are  several 
kinds.  Some  prayers  cost  one  hundred 
yen  ($50),  some  ten  yen  ($5),  some  seven 
and  a  half  yen  ($3.75),  some  five  yen 
($2.50),  some  five  sen  (three  cents),  and 
some  three  sen  (two  cents).  The  one  hun- 
dred yen  prayer  is  done  by  three  chief 
priests  for  about  twenty  days.  I  don't 
know  exactly  about  the  second.  The  Su- 
perior seems  to  pray  in  a  secret  place.  The 
manner  of  this  prayer  is  kno\vn  by  none 
but  the  Superior.  When  the  Superior  is 
about  to  die  he  chooses  his  succeeding 
priest  among  his  students,  and  teaches 
him  alone  the  manner  of  the  prayer,  and 
they  say  that  the  Superior  is  informed  by 
Buddha  when  he  shall  die.  The  third  prayer 
was  strange  to  me.  About  eight  priests 
are  necessary  in  this  prayer,  and  they  read 
together  the  sacred  books,  which  are  very 
difficult,  written  in  ancient  Chinese.  Com- 
mon priests  do  not  understand  the  mean- 
ing; they  only  memorize  it.  When  I  was 
in  primary  school  in  the  country,  a  son 
of  a  certain  priest,  about  twelve  years  old, 
was  often  present  alone  at  a  funeral  in  his 
father's  place,  only  because  he  knew  the 
sacred  books  by  memory.  This  is  what  I 
know  about  their  prayers.  I  am  sorry 
that  I  had  no  chance  of  seeing  the  rest. 

The  Buddha  of  this  temple  is  said  to 
be  very  fond  of  the  garden  radish,  and  if 
a  man  believes  in  this  Buddha  and  ded- 
icates radishes,  he,  they  say,  will  become 
rich.  Many,  many  radishes  were  brought 
down  to  the  kitclien  and  were  used  in 
every  supper.  The  Buddha  is  also  said 
to  be  fond  of  cakes,  and  every  day  an  abun- 
dance of  them  were  dedicated  to  the  Bud- 
dha. And  every  day  we  ate  as  many  as 
we  could  when  they  were  brought  down  to 
the  kitchen. 

Now  I  must  stop.  I  left  there  on  the 
twentieth  day  of  January,  thanking  them 
very  much  for  the  favor  tliey  did  me. 
I  disliked  their  misconduct,  and  my 
prayer  on  my  departure  was  that  the  Ivord 
will  deliver  them  from  their  sins. 

Jottings  from  Japan. 


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The  Outlook  of  Missions 


[November 


Itinerating  Notes 

By  Eev.  Edwin  A.  Beck 

OUE  last  itinerating  trip  was  just  be- 
fore the  Mission  meeting  in  July. 
We  took  a  stereopticon  and  a  good  set  of 
slides  to  Linsiang  and  Yunki,  to  give  lec- 
tures for  the  benefit  of  our  Mission-school 
boys  and  their  friends.  Mr.  Hsiung,  our 
able  associate  at  Lakeside,  went  along  as 
lecturer. 

Military  movements  were  already  inter- 
fering with  the  lines  of  communication, 
and  the  steam  launch,  poor  enough  at  its 
best,  that  plies  daily  between  Yochow  and 
Shinti,  was  impressed  into  the  soldiers' 
service.  So  we  were  obliged  to  make  the 
twenty  miles  down  river  in  our  small 
Lakeside  rowboat.  But  the  wind  that  in 
the  early  morning  was  so  threatening  died 
down,  and  we  were  able  to  make  the  jour- 
ney safely  and  fairly  comfortably;  and 
as  a  consequence  we  were  enabled  to  ful- 
fil the  engagement  that  had  been  made 
for  us.  A  packed  and  noisy  audience  was 
on  hand,  but  they  were  appreciative  and 
fairly  orderly,  and  as  a  result  of  the 
night's  entertainment  we  felt  we  had  ac- 
complished a  good  work  for  the  school 
and  the  chapel. 

Early  next  morning  we  packed  our  out- 
fit and  set  out  for  Yunki,  a  walk  of  ten 
miles  overland.  Our  school  teacher  there 
we  found  to  be  sick  with  malaria,  and  it 
was  necessary  before  we  left  to  make 
arrangements  to  take  hir\  along  to  the 
hospital  at  Yochow. 

But  the  prospects  for  the  evening  lec- 
ture, they  told  us,  were  not  very  good; 


there  was  a  Chinese  theatrical  going  on  on 
the  public  streets,  and  we  need  not  expect 
many  at  a  "magic  lantern"  entertainment. 
We  prepared,  however,  and  brought  into 
place  all  the  available  seating  of  the 
chapel,  and  it  was  not  too  much ! 

By  the  time  we  were  ready  to  proceed 
with  the  lecture,  every  available  space  was 
occupied,  not  even  standing  room  to  be 
secured.  The  doors  were  jammed,  and 
away  out  into  the  street  people  were  clam- 
oring for  a  chance  to  get  near,  and  were 
jumping  over  one  another's  shoulders  to 
get  inside. 

We  forced  the  doors  shut  and  tried  to 
secure  sufficient  quiet  to  enable  Mr. 
Hsiung  to  lecture,  but  to  no  avail;  there 
was  too  much  banging  and  shouting  at 
the  doors.  We  tried  to  shove  the  pictures 
through  without  comment,  but  even  that 
would  not  do;  the  mob  on  the  outside  was 
so  insistent  and  so  threatening  that  we 
had  to  discontinue  abruptly.  We  turned 
off  the  lantern  light ;  we  even  removed  the 
lantern  and  outfit  from  the  room,  but  the 
people  would  not  leave.  We  sent  in  teach- 
ers to  inform  the  mob  that  the  lecture  was 
positively  discontinued  and  they  had  bet- 
ter quietly  go  home;  but  they  would  not 
move.  They  whistled  and  shouted  and 
held  the  fort. 

Then  we  turned  our  prjdicament  into 
an  opportunity  to  preach  the  Gospel.  Call- 
ing Evangelist  Tang  to  the  platform,  we 
invited  him  to  give  a  Gospel  message,  and 
he,  after  quieting  the  mob  do^vn  to  atten- 
tion, preached  the  Gospel  message  to  a 
crowd  that  would  otherwise  hardly  have 
heard  it.  Yochow  City,  China. 


BOARD  OF  FOREIGN  MISSIONS 
Comparative  Receipts  for  Month  of  September 

1920  1921 

Synods                 Appt.       Specials      Totals         Appt.       Specials     Totals     Increase  Decrease 

Eastern                    $3,799.56       $410.34     $4,209.90     $3,340.24       $565.00     $3,905.24    $304.66 

Ohio    1,350.00       1,022.75       2,372.75      1,510.00         936.65       2.446.65  $73.90   

Northwest                    387.28         951.00       1,338.28         316.00            5.00         321.00    1,017.28 

Pittsburgh    1,306.44         125.00       1.431.44  1,481.44   

Potomac                     1,949.33         424.25       2.373.58      1,363.60         722.80       2.086.40    287.18 

German  of  East.        300.10                          300.10         200.00                           200.00    100.10 

Central    225.00         125.00         350.00         500.00         125.00         625.00  275.00   

Interior                                          92.45          92.45          30.00                             30.00    62.45 

Southwest    364.55  65.00         429.55         673.70  25.00         698.70  269.15   

W.  M.  S.  G.  S                           3,303.70       3,303.70                         1,533.18       1,533.18    1,770.52 

Annuity  Bonds  

Bequests    476.25         476.25   .       2,452.37       2,452.37  1,976.12   

Miscellaneous                                   5.00            5.00    5.0Q 

Total                     $8,375.82     $6,875.74    $15,251.56     $9,239.98     $6,490.00    $15,729.98   $4,025.61  $3,547.19 

Net  Increase    $478.42 


Woman's  Missionary  Society 

Editor,  Mes.  Edwin  W.  Lentz,  311  Market  Street,  Bangor,  Pa. 


EDITORIAL 

THE  tide  of  religious  movements  has 
brought  an  unusual  responsibility  to 
the  Alliance  of  Churches  holding  the 
Eeformed  Faith.  Our  immediate  respon- 
sibility is  to  the  Hungarian  congregations 
which  are  becoming  an  integral  part  of 
the  Reformed  Church  in  the  United 
States. 

Count  Joseph  Duzenfelt,  the  official 
representative  from  the  Synod  of  the 
Reformed  Church  of  Hungary,  is  in  this 
country  for  the  purpose  of  consummating 
the  transfer  of  the  congregations,  which 
had  held  allegiance  to  the  National 
Church  of  Hungary,  to  the  Reformed 
Church  in  the  United  States. 

We  believe  the  W.  M.  S.  will  be  greatly 
interested  in  two  statements  made  by 
Count  Duzenfelt.  He  said  the  congrega- 
tions under  the  Reformed  Church  in  the 
U.  S.  far  surpassed  in  efficiency  and 
evangelical  spirit  those  which  had  retained 
their  allegiance  to  the  Church  of 
Hungary.  And  also  in  a  number  of 
addresses  he  spoke  of  the  great  need  for 
educated  Hungarian  women. 

A  responsibility  in  which  our  interest  is 
secondary  only  to  the  Hungarian  situation 
is  the  new  Reformation  in  Czechoslovakia. 
We  quote  the  following :  "At  a  meeting  of 
the  Pan-Presbyterian  Alliance  held  at 
Pittsburgh,  September  16-26,  no  subject 
aroused  more  interest  than  that  of  help 
for  the  Reformed  and  Presbyterian 
Churches.  As  they  that  are  strong  ought 
to  help  those  that  are  weak,  it  was  the 
feeling  of  the  delegates  assembled  there 
from  all  over  the  world,  that  the  situation 
called  for  immediate,  concerted  action  on 
the  part  of  all  of  the  Reformed  and  Pres- 
byterian churches  of  this  country  and  the 
British  Isles.  Men  are  needed,  money  is 
needed  for  buildings,  for  destitute  pastors, 
for  widows  and  orphans  in  Hungary, 
Italy,  France,  Belgium  and  other  coun- 


tries; our  sister  churches  are  suffering 
want,  are  struggling  against  tremendous 
obstacles.  But  in  no  country  is  the  oppor- 
tunity for  advance  work  for  the  Protestant 
cause  as  great  as  in  the  new  Republic  of 
Czechoslovakia.-" 

We  feel  ourselves  fortunate  in  being 
able  to  present  the  timely  article,  "The 
New  Reformation  in  Czechoslovakia," 
written  by  Rev.  Kenneth  D.  Miller  during 
his  last  busy  days  in  America. 


Trained  for  the  Task 

The  Committee  on  "Work  in  Europe" 
of  the  Presybyterian  Church  selected  Rev. 
Kenneth  D.  Miller  of  the  City  and  Immi- 
grant Work  Office  to  (yganize  the  Protest- 
ant movement  in  Czechoslovakia  because 
of  his  wide  acquaintance  with  the  people, 
customs  and  country.  Mr.  Miller  has 
worked  for  eight  years  among  the  Czecho- 
slovaks. As  Immigrant  Fellow  of  the 
Board  of  Home  Missions  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  he  spent  a  full  year  in  what 
was  then  Bohemia  studying  the  language 
and  conditions  prevailing  there,  so  as  to 
enable  him  to  minister  more  helpfully  and 
sympathetically  to  tlie  Czecli  population  of 
this  country.  Upon  his  return,  Mr.  Miller 
labored  among  the  30,000  Czechoslovaks 
of  New  York  City,  being  a  director  of  the 
Jan  IIus  Neighborhood  House  on  East 
74th  street.  l3uring  the  war  Mr.  Miller 
served  with  the  Czechoslovakia  army  in 
Russia  and  Siberia  for  two  years,  having 
charge  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  carried  on 
for  those  remarkable  troops.  He  was  with 
tlie  Czechoslovak  troops  on  their  liistoric 
anabasis  across  the  Siheriaii  steppes, 
during  their  campaign  against  the  Bol- 
shevik i,  and  was  familiarly  known  by  the 
soldiers  as  "The  Uncle  from  America." 
Mr.  Miller  is  one  of  the  few  Americans 
who  has  been  able  to  acquire  sufficient 
knowledge  of  the  (^zech  language  to 
preach  in  it. 


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The  New  Reformation  in  Czecho- 
slovakia 

Rev.  Kenneth  D.  Miller 

THE  greatest  religious  movement  since 
the  days  of  the  Reformation  is 
rapidly  gaining  headway  in  the  new 
republic  of  Czechoslovakia.  Freed  from 
the  foreign  yoke  of  the  Hapsburgs,  which 
for  three  hundred  years  has  forced  an 
alien  political  rule  and  an  alien  religion 
upon  them,  the  Czechoslovaks  are  now 
able  to  breathe  freely,  to  think  for  them- 
selves, and  to  express  their  deep  religious 
feeling  in  their  own  way. 

Under  the  leadership  of  that  statesman. 
President  Masaryk,  the  Czechoslovaks  are 
making  splendid  use  of  their  new-found 
political  independence,  and  are  building 
a  state  which  is  giving  increasing  signs  of 
becoming  an  oasis  of  order  and  construc- 
tive progress  in  the  midst  of  the  chaos 
and  unrest  of  Europe.  The  Czechs  are  an 
essentially  democratic  people,  and  with 
their  love  of  democracy  have  an  unusual 
amount  of  intelligence  and  practical 
ability,  so  that  they  are  going  about  the 
task  of  building  a  new  republic  in  a  most 
business-like  way,  which  augurs  well  for 
the  future. 

They,  like  all  the  Slavs,  have  always 
been  an  essentially  religious  people.  They 
demonstrated  this  fact  to  the  world  in  the 
days  of  Hus  and  the  Bohemian  Brethren, 
when  the  Czechs  maintained  unsullied 
their  pure  Protestant  faith  in  spite  of 
bitter  persecution,  and  earned  for  their 
land  the  name  "The  Land  of  the  Book 
and  the  Cup."  This  religious  feeling  was 
finally  choked  by  the  Hapsburgs  and 
Rome,  at  th-e  time  of  the  anti-Reforma- 
tion, but  it  never  entirely  left  the  Czech 
heart.  Consequently  with  the  advent  of 
complete  religious  liberty  there  has  come 
a  nation-wide  revival  of  the  old  Hussite 
faith.  This  has  led  to  the  rejection  on  the 
part  of  hundreds  of  thousands  of  people 
of  the  faith  imposed  upon  them  by  their 
former  rulers,  and  the  inauguration  of  a 
wholesale  movement  away  from  the  Cath- 
olic Church. 

One  result  of  this  extraordinary  situ- 
ation has  been  the  formation  of  an  entirely 
new  church  called  the  Czechoslovak 
National  Church.   This  movement  was  led 


by  some  two  hundred  former  Catholic 
priests,  who  seceded  from  Rome  and  took 
their  parishes  with  them.  The  dogma  and 
ritual  of  the  church  remains  essentially 
Catholic.  But  there  are  these  great  differ- 
ences. Mass  is  observed  and  preaching 
held  in  the  native  tongue  instead  of  the 
Latin;  the  priests  are  allowed  to  marry; 
the  Bible  is  given  to  the  people;  the 
church  buildings  are  made  available  for 
Protestant  services  when  necessary;  and 
the  rule  of  Rome  is  denied.  Already  this 
church  has  enrolled  800,000  people  and 
more  are  being  added  daily.  The  most 
friendly  and  cordial  relations  exist 
between  this  new  church  and  the  Evan- 
gelical Church  of  the  Czech  Brethren, 
which  is  the  historic  Protestant  Church  of 
the  Czechs. 

This  church,  too,  is  reaping  the  fruits 
of  the  harvest.  With  the  declaration  of 
independence,  the  two  historic  branches 
of  the  Protestant  faith  which  had  been 
given  recognition  by  the  Austrian  govern- 
ment united  to  form  one  body,  which 
was  called  the  Evangelical  Church  of  the 
Czech  Brethren.  This  church  has  adopted 
the  old  historic  creed  of  the  Bohemian 
Brethren,  but  it  is  really  Presbyterian  in 
its  form  of  government  and  is  a  member 
of  the  World  Alliance  of  Churches  hold- 
ing the  Reformed  faith.  This  church 
numbered  but  175,000  members  two  years 
ago.  Now  the  membership  has  about 
doubled  and  their  leaders  state  that  fully 
500,000  people  can  be  gained  if  only 
preachers  and  meeting  houses  can  be  pro- 
vided. The  native  Protestant  ministers 
are  simply  swamped  by  the  magnitude  of 
their  task.  People  are  coming  to  them  in 
thousands  seeking  admission  to  their 
church  asking  for  preaching  services, 
instruction  classes,  Sunday  Schools  and 
Bibles.  In  one  part  of  Prague  6,000  new 
members  have  been  received  by  one  con- 
gregation; in  another  4,000.  In  places 
where  three  years  ago  not  a  single  Protest- 
ant could  be  found  there  are  now  congre- 
gations numbering  two,  three  and  five 
hundred.  In  the  Pilsen  district,  particu- 
larly, the  movement  is  very  strong.  Fifteen 
thousand  people  have  signified  their  de- 
sire to  become  Protestants.  But  there 
are  only  two  ministers  to  care  for  them. 
All  the  ministers  are  preaching  almost 


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daily  and  three  or  four  times  on  Sunday. 
Laymen  have  been  pressed  into  service  for 
lectures  and  even  preaching.  But  still 
thousands  and  thousands  have  no  regular 
ministry,  and  are  turned  away  hungry 
when  they  come  seeking  the  Bread  of  Life. 
The  church  buildings  are  woefully  inad- 
equate to  house  these  new  converts.  Ser- 
vices are  held  in  relays,  but  still  thousands 
have  to  stand  outside.  In  the  summer 
out  of  door  meetings  were  held  which 
were  attended  by  as  many  as  ten  thousand 
people,  but  this  cannot  be  done  in  the 
winter  time.  Protestant  ministers  have 
in  their  letters  mentioned  at  least  twelve 
places  where  there  is  a  congregation  of  at 
least  a  thousand  and  no  church  building. 

Is  it  any  wonder  then  that  these  men 
call  to  their  brethren  here  in  America  for 
help?  "Send  us  men  and  money"  they 
write.  "We  need  both — but  most  of  all 
we  need  your  men." 

The  Presbyterian  and  Reformed 
Churches  have  some  sixty  Czech  speaking 
ministers  in  this  country,  who  serve  the 
500,000  Czechs  of  America.  The  need 
here  is  great,  but  in  the  face  of  this 
unusual  opportunity  the  need  for  them  in 
their  old  country  is  greater.  All  of  these 
men  are  Americans  now,  having  their 
American  citizenship  papers  and  best  of 
all  an  American  spirit  and  point  of  view. 
This  makes  them  all  the  more  valuable  for 
work  abroad,  for  the  church  there  needs 
something  of  our  American  point  of  view 
in  meeting  this  situation.  Some  of  these 
men  rank  with  many  of  our  colleagues 
abroad  in  ability.  There  is  Rev.  Krenek 
for  instance,  who  electrified  the  General 
Assembly  at  Winona  by  his  brilliant 
address.  Mr.  Krenek  finished  his  theo- 
logical studies  here  and  for  seven  years 
was  the  pastor  of  the  largest  Czech  Pres- 
byterian Church  at  Silver  Lake,  Minn- 
esota, and  known  througliout  the  Czech 
colonies  of  America  for  his  brilliant 
oratory.  Mr.  Krenek  throws  his  wliole 
personality  into  every  word  he  utters.  His 
gestures  are  dynamic  as  he  speaks.  He 
paces  up  and  down  the  platform.  He  runs 
his  hands  through  his  great  shock  of  hair. 
But  all  the  wliile  he  is  giving  out  a  mes- 
sage of  extraordinary  brilliance  and  power. 
A  splendid  student  and  scholar,  Mr. 
Krenek  makes  every  address  a  masterpiece 


of  literary  quality,  and  scholarly  thought, 
and  throws  into  it  the  entirety  of  his  con- 
secrated Christian  personality.  A  year 
ago  his  Czech  friends  here,  members  of 
the  Bohemian  Presbytery  of  the  Central 
West,  sent  Mr.  Krenek  abroad  to  Czecho- 
slovakia. His  work  there  created  a  sensa- 
tion. Thousands  flocked  to  hear  him  and 
his  fervid  oratory  gave  a  great  impulse  to 
the  revival  movement.  There  was  great 
lamentation  in  Protestant  circles  when 
Mr.  Krenek  returned,  and  from  that  day 
to  this  every  mail  has  brought  letters  from 
the  old  country  beseeching  Mr.  Krenek  to 
return  to  them.  Similarly  Rev.  J.  W. 
Dobias,  of  Texas,  has  rendered  an  unusual 
bit  of  service  in  Czechoslovakia  until 
obliged  to  return  to  his  family  in  x\merica. 
Working  in  the  Pilsen  district,  Mr.  Dobias 
preached  to  thousands  nearly  every  day, 
and  did  much  to  bring  about  the  extraor- 
dinary Protestant  movement  in  that 
region. 

So  our  Czech  brethren  write :  "These 
men  must  come  back  to  us.  And  send 
with  them  as  many  of  the  other  Czech 
speaking  ministers  as  you  can  possibly 
spare.  We  need  them.  We  need  them 
desperately  and  we  need  them  now.  If 
you  can  send  some  funds  with  them  to 
erect  church  buildings  we  shall  be  grate- 
ful, but  send  us  the  men  in  any  event." 


"Everyland"  Will  Bring  a  Happy 
New  Year  to  Many  Children 

The  publisliing  of  Evcrijland  is 
assured.  The  January  number  will  be  the 
first  to  appear  and  the  price  will  be  $1.50. 

Evcryland  has  a  history  whicli  means 
nothing  to  the  children,  but  a  brief  refer- 
ence to  it  may  help  some  of  us  to  appre- 
ciate the  value  which  certain  persons 
attach  to  a  missionary  trained  childhood. 

Years  back,  Mrs.  Peabody  began  to 
publish  Evcrijland.  Kacli  year  it  cost 
her  thousands  of  dollars.  Some  years  it 
was  necessary  to  put  as  mucli  as  $11,000 
into  the  venture.  This  was  done  so  that 
tlie  children  might  have  the  most  attrac- 
tive and  best  missionary  information. 
Later  the  Mission  Boards  and  the  Mission- 
ary Education  Movement  published  the 

(C.oncludrd  on  Page  522> 


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[XOVEMBEK 


A  Prayer  for  Women 

OH,  Thou  Son  of  Mary  and  Son  of 
God  !  Who  didst  count  it  no  dishonor 
to  be  born  of  a  virgin;  Who  wast  subject 
to  Thy  earthly  parents  from  earliest 
infancy,  and  in  Thy  dying  hour  didst 
make  loving  provision  for  Thy  mother ! 
We  pray  Thee  give  earnest  heed  to  the 
prayers  of  Thy  servants,  the  daughters  of 
men,  as  we  humble  ourselves  before  Thee 
in  this  the  day  of  our  great  opportunity, 
and  of  our  grave  responsibility. 

We  thank  Thee  for  the  abundant  life 
brought  into  the  world  by  Thy  coming, 
and  especially  for  its  benefits  to  the  world 
of  womankind  in  all  lands  that  have  come 
to  know  Thee  aright.  Hasten  the  time 
when  all  the  dark  distinctions  of  race  or 
sex  shall  disappear  before  the  rising  of 
the  Son  of  Righteousness. 

As  it  has  always  been  our  task  to  bear 
life,  and  to  give  to  it  its  earliest  direction 
and  impress,  we  pray  Thee  to  give  us  a 
steadying  sense  of  the  responsibility  that 
has  become  ours  of  moulding  the  larger 
life  about  us.  Spare  us  from  all  sem- 
blance of  pride  and  arrogance.  Give  us 
clearness  of  vision,  earnestness  of  purpose, 
and  the  indomitable  ardor  of  action. 
Free  us  from  the  frivolities  and  foibles 


that  so  easily  beset  us.  May  we  clearly 
see  the  leadings  and  influences  of  all  false 
fashions  that  under  the  guise  of  beauty 
tend  to  lure  men  to  their  fall;  and  may 
no  form  of  dress  or  conduct  of  ours  make 
it  more  difficult  for  men  to  be  strong  or 
women  pure. 

Grant  us  true  knowledge  of  the  depend- 
ence of  men  upon  us  for  their  earlier  as 
well  as  their  later  ideals  of  truth  and 
honor  and  worthy  ambition,  and  prepare 
us  by  education  and  training  to  fail  them 
not  in  their  hour  of  need.  As  Thou  hast 
called  us  to  large  responsibility  in  the 
home  and  the  Church,  as  well  as  the  wider 
work  of  the  world,  we  pray  Thee  to  use 
us  as  instruments  in  Thy  hands  to  fit  the 
race  for  citizenship  in  the  Kingdom  of 
Heaven. 

Fulfill  to  us  in  richest  measure  the  hope 
of  the  new  day ;  transform  its  opportunity 
in  obligation ;  and  grant  us  grace,  patience 
and  power  to  discharge  to  the  uttermost 
our  obligation  to  a  waiting  world,  and 
to  Thee. 

We  ask  it  all  in  Thy  name.  Amen. 
Gertrude  H.  Apple^ 

Hood  College, 
Frederick,  Md. 
The  Reformed  Church  Messenger. 


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The  New  Glarus  Colony — Early 
History  and  Progress 

(To  be  used  by  the  W.  M.  S.  with  the 
program  based  on  Chapter  IV  of  the  text 
books,  "From  Survey  to  Service.) 

New  Glarus,  which  today  has  a  popu- 
lation of  a  little  over  a  thousand,  is  beauti- 
fully located  among  the  hills  of  Green 
County  in  Wisconsin.  The  early  settlers 
located  there  in  the  year  1845  after  a 
journey  of  more  than  five  thousand  miles 
from  the  Canton  of  Glarus  in  Switzerland. 
This  site  had  been  selected  by  two  advance 
agents  sent  out  by  the  emigration  society 
of  Glarus.  One  of  them  was  a  judge, 
Nicolas  Duerst,  the  other  a  blacksmith 
named  Fridolin  Streiff.  All  the  colonists 
©ame  from  the  canton  of  Glarus. 

Why  did  they  come  to  America?  You 
will  ask.  Let  us  see.  In  Switzerland,  at 
least  in  some  of  the  cantons  like  Glarus, 
land  owned  by  the  government  is  divided 
yearly  among  the  adult  male  citizens  for 
the  purpose  of  cultivation.  As  the  popu- 
lation increased  the  parcels  of  land 
naturally  became  smaller.  Some  families 
had  to  be  satisfied  with  one  hundred  and 
sixty  to  six  hundred  and  forty  square 
yards.  In  the  year  1844  a  time  of  great 
industrial  depression  set  in.  Factories 
shortened  the  hours  of  labor,  minimized 
wages,  and,  in  some  cases,  closed  down 
altogether.  This,  coupled  with  a  scant 
harvest,  caused  distress  and  impoverish- 
ment. Finally  the  more  progressive  ones 
suggested  emigration  to  America  as  a 
means  of  relief.  Thus  on  tlie  10th  of 
April,  1845,  one  hundred  and  ninety-three 
individuals  gathered  at  the  Linth  canal 
and  began  the  long  journey,  wliich 
brought  them  to  New  Glarus  on  the  loth 
of  August.  When  they  arrived  at  their 
destination  but  a  scant  supply  of  food  was 
left,  but  the  streams  abounded  in  fish 
which  they  gratefully  cauglit  and  ate.  A 
large  hut  was  erected  wliere  the  colonists 
found  shelter.  Later  log  huts  were  built, 
with  roofs  of  wild  hay  and  room  enough 
for  two  families,  so  that  the  colony  was  at 
least  to  some  extent  prepared  for  the 
winter.  Still  there  were  many  difficulties 
to  overcome.  They  Averc  in  a  strange  land, 
far  away  from  their  old  home,  ignorant  of 
the  language,  customs  and  laws  of  the  new 


country,  ignorant  also  of  tlie  ])revalcnt 
mode  of  cultivating  the  soil.  The  neigh- 
bors looked  upon  these  foreigners  with 
distrust,  which  together  with  a  want  of 
proper  clothing  and  the  necessaries  of  life, 
was  indeed  a  dark  outlook  for  these 
colonists.  When  spring  came  they  began 
to  work,  each  colonist  clearing  the  tract 
of  land  allotted  him.  The  two  advance 
agents  had  bought  twelve  hundred  acres. 
As  no  horses  were  at  hand,  breaking  the 
soil  had  to  be  done  with  spades  and 
shovels. 

It  seemed  providential  that  during  the 
first  spring  cattle  were  brought  to  this 
section  from  Ohio.  Out  of  a  reserve  fund 
a  cow  was  purchased  for  each  household. 
That  was  to  them  a  great  boon,  for  while 
the  American  methods  of  farming  were 
unfamiliar  to  them  they  knew  how  to  take 
care  of  cattle  and  how  to  make  butter  and 
cheese.  They  were  thus  led  to  take  up 
dairy  farming  for  which  the  land  is  espe- 
cially suited.  Although  the  beginning  was 
difficult,  yet  with  stout  hands,  faith  and 
hope,  these  sturdy  pioneers  forged  ahead. 
One  who  visits  this  settlement  today  will 
observe  on  every  hand  large  herds  of 
cattle  peacefully  grazing  on  the  hillside 
pastures,  well  kept  farms  with  spacious 
barns  and  comfortable  homes. 

During  the  first  few  years  of  residence 
at  New  Glarus  the  minds  of  the  settlers 
were  occupied  mainly  with  the  providing 
of  food,  clothing  and  shelter  and  looking 
after  the  material  welfare  of  the  colony. 
Very  soon,  however,  they  directed  their 
attention  to  their  intellectual  wants,  and 
as  early  as  1847  a  school  was  begun  in  a 
log  house,  and  in  1849  tlie  first  school 
house  was  built  in  the  village.  Besides 
this  school  which  was  taught  in  the 
English  language,  a  German  school  was 
begun,  and  later  on  an  evening  school, 
tauglit  in  German  by  Christian  Luch- 
singer.  Not  only  did  they  build  a  scliool 
house  but  a  church.  This  was  built  of 
logs  and  was  erected  before  a  minister  was 
on  the  field.  In  1850  tlie  Keformed  Synod 
of  Glarus  in  Switzerland  sent  them  a  grad- 
uate of  the  Mission  House  at  Basel,  the 
Rev.  W.  Streissguth,  as  pastor.  With  his 
help  they  organized  a  church.  Tliis  is  the 
oldest  Reformed  congregation  in  the  state 
of  Wisconsin.    For  many  years  they  were 


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connected  with  the  Reformed  Church  in 
Switzerland,  but  this  connection  was 
severed  automatically  later  on  by  ceasing 
to  send  annual  reports  to  the  mother 
clmrch  in  Glarus.  Due  to  the  inborn  love 
of  independence  of  the  Swiss,  for  many 
years  they  remained  an  independent 
organization  in  this  country,  although  they 
were  in  close  touch  and  sympathy  with 
the  Reformed  Church  here.  On  January 
20th,  1919,  they  decided  to  become  an 
integral  part  of  the  Reformed  Church  in 
the  United  States.  Under  the  wise  leader- 
ship of  its  present  pastor,  the  Rev.  O.  D. 
Elliker,  this  Church  is  steadily  growing 
and  increasing  in  usefulness  and  service. 
They  are  interested  not  only  in  themselves 
but  in  others,  which  is  shown  by  the  fact 
that  at  their  last  Mission  Festival  in 
August  the  sum  of  eighteen  hundred 
dollars  was  contributed  for  missionary 
purposes.  The  Church  is  today  the  largest 
Reformed  Church  in  the  state  of  Wis- 
consm.  Paul  Grosshuesch. 

Pastor  Peace  Reformed  Church. 
St.  Paul,  Minn. 


The  Prayer  Calendar 

The  Prayer  Calendar  has  been  a  friend 
throughout  the  year.  Month  by  month  a 
companionship  of  spirit  existed  between 
the  woman  who  wrote  the  prayer  and  the 
thousands  of  women  who  used  it. 

The  prayer  for  the  closing  month  of 
the  year  was  written  by  Mrs.  Allen  R. 
Bartholomew,  of  Philadelphia. 

Organization  Notes 

On  October  1st  a  Mission  Band  was 
organized  in  the  First  Reformed  Church, 
Palmerton,  Pa.,  with  23  charter  members. 
The  following  officers  were  elected :  Pres., 
Mary  Mohr ;  Vice  Pres.,  Dorothy  Cum- 
mings;  Secretary,  Stella  Zeigler;  Treas- 
urer, La  Rue  Wertman;  Deacons,  Alvin 
Fogleman,  Wm.  Brobst,  Albert  Kleintop; 
Leaders,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  J.  G.  Kerschner. 

The  Mary  E.  Hoy  Y.  W.  M.  A.  was 
organized  in  Christ  Church,  Hagerstown, 
on  September  16th,  with  14  members. 

Mrs.  Cecile  Gutelius  is  the  leader ;  Vice 
Pres.,  Miss  Anna  Dubel;  Cor.  and  Rec. 
Secretary,  Evelyn  Ditto ;  Treasurer,  Vesta 
Eyerley. 


On  September  9th  a  Y.  W.  M.  A.  was 

organized  in  Messiah  Reformed  Church, 
Philadelphia  with  7  charter  members. 
The  immediate  aim  is  100  members.  The 
following  officers  were  elected :  Leader, 
Mrs.  Wm.  Barber;  President,  Miss  Anna 
Herold  ;  Rec.  Sec,  Miss  Mary  LaRose; 
Treasurer,  Miss  Myrele  Sly. 


Experiences  in  Organization  Work 

IN  a  recent  trip  into  L^rsinus  and  Minn- 
esota Classes  of  the  Synod  of  the  North- 
west, I  presented  the  work  of  the  W.  M.  S. 
in  10  congregations,  speaking  seven  times 
in  English  and  five  times  in  German.  Two 
W.  M.  S.  and  two  Y.  W.  M.  A.  were  organ- 
ized, and  others  expect  to  take  definite 
action  this  month.  Everywhere  I  was  so 
cordially  received,  that  I  felt  at  home 
immediately.  How  often  I  wished  that 
I  might  accept  the  many  hearty  invita- 
tions to  stay  a  few  days,  but  that  was 
impossible. 

As  a  result  of  my  visits  in  these  various 
congregations  I  realized  as  never  before, 
how  conditions  and  problems  in  one  place 
differ  from  those  of  all  other  places.  I 
doubt  whether  there  are  any  two  alike. 
Between  some  congregations  the  difference 
is  slight,  while  others  differ  widely.  In  one 
place  we  find  community  life  highly 
developed,  in  another  we  find  it  very  weak. 
In  one  place  spiritual  life  is  strong,  the 
life  of  the  entire  community  centers  about 
the  services  of  the  Sabbath  day,  and  every 
member  of  each  family  is  in  church  if  he 
is  well  enough  to  attend.  In  other  places 
church  services  are  not  so  highly  prized, 
and  attendance  is  influenced  by  the  least 
inclemency  of  the  weather,  a  Sunday 
outing,  or  a  berry-picking  excursion. 

In  some  farm  localities  all  the  members 
of  the  congregation  live  within  a  radius 
of  two  or  three  miles,  and  every  family 
within  that  radius  is  a  member  of  that 
particular  congregation.  In  other  places 
the  members  are  scattered  as  far  as  ten 
miles  in  various  directions.  In  some  rural 
communities  the  women  drive  the  cars 
themselves  and  can  get  together  easily,  in 
other  localities  no  woman  drives  a  car,  and 
the  attendance  at  meetings  depends 
entirely  on  the  possibility  of  the  men 
taking  them  and  calling  for  them  again. 


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It  is  self-evident,  that  it  is  difficult  to 
have  a  successful  organization  for  the 
women  under  these  conditions. 

Then  comes  the  difference  in  language. 
In  some  congregations  the  W.  M.  S.  can  be 
satisfactorily  conducted  in  the  English,  in 
others  the  German  best  meets  the  needs. 
In  still  others  there  are  individuals  who 
understand  too  little  German,  and  others 
who  understand  too  little  English  to  get 
enough  out  of  the  program.  The  W.  M.  S. 
in  some  congregations  has  solved  the  prob- 
lem by  meeting  in  two  sections,  while  in 
others  the  program  is  divided,  some 
numbers  being  given  in  English,  and 
others  in  German. 

This  problem  of  language  does  not, 
however,  materially  effect  the  work  of  the 
W.  M.  S.  It  is  the  subject  that  is  all 
important,  the  language  through  which 
the  information  is  transmitted  is  of  minor 
importance.  The  use  of  one  or  the  other 
language  in  the  congregation  does  not 
necessarily  hasten  or  retard  progress.  It 
is  sometimes  intimated  that  a  congrega- 
tion that  uses  only  German  is  unprogres- 
sive.  In  one  congregation  that  I  visited, 
where  German  is  the  language  in  which 
all  services  are  conducted,  and  where  it  is 
the  language  of  conversation  among  even 
the  young  people,  both  a  W.  M.  S.  and  Y. 
W.  M.  A.  were  organized  immediately 
after  the  work  had  been  presented  to  them. 
This  was  in  some  respects  a  very  conserva- 
tive community,  and  still  they  organized 
more  promptly  (and  both  departments  at 
that)  than  any  other  congregation  where 
I  have  presented  the  work.  We  see  that 
language  after  all  makes  very  little  differ- 
ence, it  is  the  spiritual  attitude  of  the 
people  that  determines  the  progress  in  the 
church. 

In  spite  of  the  vast  differences  in  the 
problems  of  the  various  communities,  I 
was  strongly  impressed  with  the  spirit  of 
unanimity.  Although  our  problems  and 
methods  of  work  differ  widely,  yet  we  are 
all  members  of  the  Reformed  Church, 
thankful  for  its  splendid  history.  We  are 
all  working  for  tlie  strengthening  of  our 
denomination,  so  that  she  may  be  an  ever 
widening  and  deepening  channel,  through 
which  the  Holy  Spirit  can  carry  on  His 
work.  The  W.  M.  S.  has  been  an  instru- 
ment in  binding  our  church  'closer  together 


year  by  year,  and  we  hope  that  besides 
performing  the  functions  for  which  it  was 
founded,  it  will  exercise  this  same  unify- 
ing influence  in  the  newly  organized 
places.  Ruth  Nott 

Secretary  of  Organization  in  German 
Synods. 


Lake  Geneva  Summer  School  of 
Missions 

THE  camp  at  which  this  summer  school 
was  held  is  at  Conference  Point,  on 
beautiful  Lake  Geneva,  in  Wisconsin,  and 
is  the  property  of  the  International  Sun- 
day-school Association.  The  walks  over 
the  wooded  knolls  and  along  the  shores 
of  the  clear  blue  lake  lure  the  visitor  to 
spend  many  hours  in  quest  of  the  new 
beauties  which  each  turn  in  the  road  will 
bring  to  view.  A  number  of  girls  fol- 
lowed the  shore  path  all  around  the  lake 
a  distance  of  about  thirty  miles. 

One  can  spend  hours  just  watching  the 
lake,  dotted  with  graceful  yachts,  com- 
fortable steamers  and  myriads  of  smaller 
craft,  while  the  swimmer  hears  the  rip- 
pling waters  constantly  inviting  him  to 
plunge  in  among  them. 

In  the  midst  of  such  beauties  of  nature 
it  is  easy  to  hear  God's  message  under 
the  guidance  of  master  teachers.  The 
Bible  hour,  under  Mrs.  W.  T.  Elmore,  for- 
merly missionary  in  India,  revealed  many 
wonderful,  unknown  treasures  from  the 
book  of  Isaiah.  The  study  books  were  ably 
presented,  both  by  lecture  and  study 
classes,  and  methods  of  work  for  women, 
girls  and  children  were  given  due  con- 
sideration. The  messages  of  returned  mis- 
sionaries from  Mexico,  Porto  Rico,  Africa, 
India  and  China  were  extremely  interest- 
ing. Miss  Troeck,  formerly  of  Ellis 
Island,  presented  the  immigration  work 
in  a  most  forceful  manner.  I  was  pleased 
with  the  splendid  tribute  she  gave  to  me 
in  the  course  of  a  private  interview  con- 
cerning our  former  workers  at  Ellis 
Island  and  the  glowing  description  of  our 
new  Hospice  at  New  York. 

This  being  only  the  third  year  of  the 
summer  school  at  Geneva,  and  having 
divided  forces  in  order  to  start  anotlier 
at  Dixon,  HI.,  this  summer,  the  registra- 
tion was  only  156.  A  very  hopeful  feature. 


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however,  was  the  fact  that  the  attendance 
in  the  Girls'  Department  exceeded  that  of 
the  women.  The  delegates  made  up  in 
enthusiasm  what  they  lacked  in  numbers, 
and,  of  course,  one  could  come  into  closer 
contact  with  a  large  percentage  of  the 
people  present.  It  was  a  splendid  school, 
and  many  of  those  who  were  present  ex- 
pressed their  intention  of  returning  next 
year,  bringing  others  with  them. 

Ruth  Nott. 

Milwaukee,  Wis. 


Literature  Chat 

Cabbie  M.  Kebschnee 


The  American  Volume  Interchurch 
World  Survey,  pages  85-100,  will  supply 
you  with  statistics  on  the  negro  problem 
touched  on  in  Chapter  V  "Survey  to  Serv- 
ice." The  orientals  in  the  United  States 
are  discussed  on  pages  127  to  132. 

Alice  M.  Guernsey  in  "Suggestions  for 
Programs"  suggests  as  a  reading,  "Mis- 
sionary Services,"  pages  135-136. 

CHAPTER  VI. 

The  aim  of  this  chapter  is  to  lead 
Christians  to  feel  the  importance  of  under- 
standing the  industrial  problem  and  the 
responsibility  resting  upon  the  church  to 
help  solve  it. 

In  the  previous  chapters  a  "Survey" 
has  been  made.  What  will  our  "Service" 
be? 

Send  stamp  to  Congregational  Educa- 
tional Society,  14  Beacon  St.,  Boston, 
Mass.,  for  "Constitutionalism  in  Indus- 
try." 

Use  the  pamphlet  "Golden  Rule  in 
Business,"  by  A.  Nash,  secured  from 
Murray  Press,  359  Boylston  St.,  Boston, 
Mass. 

Members  of  the  Woman's  Missionary 
Society  and  the  Young  Woman's  Mission- 
ary Auxiliary  will  be  interested  in  the 
book  "Hungry  Hearts"  by  Aniza 
Yezierska  (Any  library  or  book  store — 
$1.90). 

Report  on  "How  One  Plant  did  it." 
(Pages  164-165.) 


NOTE.  The  Dennison  Paper  Co.  is  con- 
ducted as  nearly  along  Christian  prin- 
ciples as  any  church.  Employees  yearly 
offer  4,000  suggestions  as  to  uses  to  which 
the  Dennison  products  can  be  put.  About 
200  of  these  are  valuable  and  purchased. 
There  is  a  splendid  spirit  of  co-operation 
between  employer  and  employee. 

What  can  my  church  do  to  better  indus- 
trial conditions  in  my  own  town  ?  Can  we 
as  a  church  make  a  Survey  of  our  town? 
Do  we  realize  our  responsibility?  Have 
we  a  constructive  program  to  meet  the 
needs  the  Survey  revealed? 

From  what  sources  does  the  dollar  spent 
for  missions  covered  in  the  "Survey" 
come  ? 

Discuss  Christian  Stewardship.  (Send 
for  material  to  Rev.  Wm.  E.  Lampe,  Ph. 
D.,  Reformed  Church  Building,  15th  and 
Race  Sts.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.) 

Secure  a  copy  of  "The  Home  of  Neigh- 
borly Service,"  5  cents,  from  Carrie  M. 
Kerschner,  Room  408,  Reformed  Church 
Building,  15th  and  Race  Sts.,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa.) 

Am  I  doing  all  I  can  to  save  America 
■for  Christ? 

If  the  Pageant  "We  Are  Builders"  was 
not  used  as  a  part  of  your  Home  Mission 
Day  celebration  it  will  prove  a  good 
closing  message  of  this  study.  (Omit 
part  of  "Church  Building  Fund.") 

A  Suggestive  Constitution  for  a  local 
Woman's  Missionary  Federation  can  be 
supplied  by  Carrie  M.  Kerschner.  A 
stamped  envelope  will  bring  it  to  you. 

Calendars  can  be  secured  either  from 
Carrie  M.  Kerschner,  Room  408, 
Reformed  Church  Building,  15th  and 
Race  Sts.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  or  Mrs.  C. 
A.  Krout,  244  S.  Washington  St.,  Tiffin, 
Ohio,  at  20  cents  each  or  $2  per  dozen. 


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magazine,  then  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement  took  it  over.  After  the  cessa- 
tion of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement 
no  agency  could  be  found  which  was 
willing  to  publish  the  magazine,  and 
now  Mrs.  Peabody  again  takes  it  because 
Bhe  believes  the  children  must  be  trained. 

Send  subscriptions  to  M.  H.  Leavis, 
West  Medford,  Mass. 


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Young  Woman's 
Missionary  Auxiliary 

Mrs.  J.  Edward  Omwake,  Secretary 


The  Challenge 

"Needs  of  Town  and  Country  Commu- 
nities" is  the  title  of  Chapter  IV  in  "Play- 
ing Square  With  Tomorrow."  Much  valu- 
able material  on  this  subject  may  be  found 
in  "World  Survey-American  Volume"  pp. 
57-72.  "Facing  Forward  in  a  Rural 
Industrial  Community"  published  in 
"Christian  Work,"  October  1st,  1921,  will 
also  give  helpful  suggestions  on  this 
engaging  subject. 

No  one  wants  to  live  in  a  community 
without  a  church.  Emphasize  the  fact 
that  the  business  of  making  town  and 
country  churches  efficient,  is  the  task  of 
the  younger  generation. 

Margaret  Slattery  says:  "America  is 
Christian  not  yet.  Not  yet  is  the  chal- 
lenge that  comes  to  the  girls  of  today." 
You  girls  must  form  clean  habits  noiu; 
you  must  fix  your  ideals  high  noiv;  you 
must  study  hard  now;  you  must  practice 
self-denial  now;  if  you  would  be  the 
power  for  good  in  the  church  of  the 
future,  which  it  is  your  privilege  to 
become. 

You  are  entrusted  with  a  message — the 
good  news  of  the  Man  of  Galilee ;  you  must 
help  to  give  this  message  to  the  world.  By 
your  fidelitv  to  your  trust  you  stand  or 
fall. 


Announcements 

In  Pittsburgh,  September  23rd,  1921, 
Mrs.    B.    B.    Krammes,    Mrs.    M.  G. 
Schucker,  Miss  Alma  Iske,  and  Mrs.  J. 
Edward  Omwake  met  in  conference  to  dis-  j_ 
cuss   plans   for   the    improvement  and 
growth  of  our  Young  Woman's  Missionary 
Auxiliary  and  Mission  Band  Departments. 
These  ladies  unanimously  agreed  that  the 
Departments   of    the    Young  Woman's 
Missionary   Auxiliary    and   the    Young  I. 
People's  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor 
must  not  over-reach  nor  over-lap  in  their  II. 
respective  spheres  of  work.   They  may  be 


co-existent  in  any  congregation,  but  their 
lines  of  activity  are  separate  and  distinct. 
The  Young  Woman's  Missionary  Auxili- 
ary is  the  recruiting  station  of  the 
Woman's  Missionary  Society  of  General 
Synod,  and  is  a  definite  part  of  our 
woman's  work  for  women. 

Miss  Alma  Iske,  our  new  Y.  W.  M.  A. 
Field  Secretary,  14  Remmele  Block, 
Tiffin,  Ohio,  is  now  ready  for  work.  All 
new  Y.  W.  M.  A.  organization  work  is 
done  at  the  expense  of  the  W.  M.  S.  G.  S. 
Auxiliaries  previously  organized,  desiring 
Miss  Iske's  services,  are  requested  to  pay 
expenses. 

Young  Women's  Missionary 
Auxiliary  Policy 

Purpose 

The  Young  Woman's  Missionary 
Auxiliary  is  the  connecting  link 
between  the  Woman's  Missionary 
Society  and  Mission  Bands. 
To  develop  Christian  young  woman- 
hood through  the  four  sides  of  the 
character,  i.e.,  physically,  mentally, 
socially,  and  spiritually.  Ex,  "Jesus 
increased  in  wisdom  and  stature  and 
in  favor  with  God  and  man." 
To  foster  in  teen-age  girls  (14-21 
yrs.)  a  missionarv  spirit  by  means 
of: 

a.  Spiritual  Development. 

b.  Education. 

c.  Systematic  Giving. 

d.  Service  rendered. 

Aim 

To  establish  a  Young  Woman's  Mis- 
sionary Auxiliary  in  every  local 
congregation. 

a.  One  hundred  new  societies 
during  this  year  (1921-22). 

Membership 
Girls  between  the  ages  of  fourteen 
and  twenty-one  years. 

a.  Twenty  per  cent  increase 
annually  in  membership. 

Meetings 

Twelve  regular  meetings  held 
during  the  year. 

Average  attendance  one-half  the 
membership. 


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III.  One  public  meeting  held  during  the 
year  by  the  Auxiliary  alone,  or  in 
connection  with  the  Woman's  Mis- 
sionary Society. 

Spiritual  Development 
I.       To  encourage  the  spirit  of  habitual 
prayer  and  Bible  reading. 
Education 

I.  By  attending  Summer  Missionary 
Conferences. 

II.  Through  the  study  of  current  Mis- 
sion Study  Books,  using  the  Pro- 
gram Packets  on  study  books,  which 
are  especially  prepared  for  the 
Young  Woman's  Missionary  Aux- 
iliary. 

III.  By  means  of  leaflets,  missionary 
magazines,  playlets,  pageants,  lec- 
tures, etc. 

Gifts 

I.  Annual  per  capita  budget  of  $1.20 
paid  in  full  by  every  member  to 
objects  designated  by  the  Budget 
Committee  of  the  W.  M.  S.  G.  S. 
for  Young  Woman's  Missionary 
Auxiliaries. 

II.  Annual  Thank-Offering  paid 
through  the  proper  channels. 

III.  Special  Gifts: 

a.  Foreign  Work. 

b.  Home  Work. 

Service 

I.  Training  for  leadership  in  local 
congregation. 

II.  Serving  the  neighborhood  in  some 
specific  way.  Power  of  example.  "I 
shall  eat  no  meat  while  the  world 
stands,  if  meat  maketh  my  brother 
to  offend." 

III.  Life  enlistment  for  service  at  home 
or  in  the  foreign  field. 

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home,  good  nourishing  food,  muscular  ex- 
ercise and  wholesome  recreation,  are  essen- 
tials to  a  healthy,  robust  body.  And, 
above  all,  the  careful  treatment  of  the 
tuberculous  is  of  paramount  importance  in 
guarding  the  health  of  those  who  are  well. 
The  colored  people  are  making  gigantic 
strides  in  the  economic  world,  but  they 
must  make  equally  greal;  ones  in  the  mat- 
ter of  health,  for  otherwise  their  economic 
growth  will  be  materially  hindered. 
A  large  part  of  the  proceeds  from  the 


Christmas  seal  sale,  to  be  held  this  year 
in  December  by  the  National  Tuberculosis 
Association  and  its  affiliated  agencies,  will 
be  devoted  to  the  general  education  and 
professional  training  of  colored  people  in 
the  field  of  public  health. 


The  Y.  W.  M.  A. 

Who  is  it  you  are  speaking  of — 

And  what  do  you  wish  to  say? 
As  through  this  world  we  journey 

On  our  firm  and  steadfast  way. 

Why,  don't  you  know  and  haven't  you  heard 

Of  the  things  we  do  and  say? 
Of  course  you  have — now  stop  and  think, 

It's  the  Y.  W.  M.  A. 

Some  are  called  "young  women," 

Others  "young  ladies"  we  say. 
And  some  the  "Missionary  Maids," 

But  we're  all  the  Y.  W^.  M.  A. 

What  is  this  abbreviation, 

What  does  it  mean  anyway — 
The  Young  Women's  Mission  Auxiliary, 

In  short  the  Y.  W.  M.  A. 

Enlisted?    Yes,  we're  enlisted. 

Why,  the  war  is  over,  you  say. 
The  greatest  war  we  ever  knew 

Is  i)eing  waged  today. 

It  takes  the  strong  and  sturdy 

The  very  best  for  the  fray. 
To  fight  the  battle  'gainst  Satan 

We're  working,  the  Y.  W.  M.  A. 

No  matter  what  our  station 

Or  whether  we  go  or  stay. 
We're  working  for  our  Master, 

The  Y.  W.  M.  A. 

Enlisted  for  the  cause  of  others 

At  home  and  far  away. 
We  are  volunteers  for  Jesus, 

The  Y.  W.  M.  A. 

The  women  go  before  us, 

Superior,  so  they  say, 
In  experience  and  in  knowledge. 

And  we're  just  the  Y.  W.  M.  A. 

But  never  mind,  dear  Sisters, 

As  the  months  and  years  roll  'way, 

We'll  be  ready  to  take  up 

Where  you  leave  off— The  Y.  W.  M.  A. 

Trained  leaders  for  our  Master, 

Working  for  Him — day  by  day, 
We  never  grow  weary  of  well  doing, 

The  Y.  W.  M.  A. 

Young,  energetic  and  thoughtful, 

To  go  Forward  and  Upward  we  pray; 

To  help  the  weak  and  less  fortunate 
Is  the  aim  of  the  Y.  W.  M.  A. 

Mrs.  E.  M.  Anneshansly, 

Sec.  Y.  W.  M.  a., 
Kenmore,  Ohio.  Tuscarawas  Classis. 


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The  Mission  Band 

Mbs.  M.  G.  Schuckee,  Secretabt 


Methods  for  Mission  Bands 

Helen  Nott 

In  connection  with  "Stay-at-Home 
Journeys/'  our  Home  Mission  study  book 
for  this  year,  we  have  a  splendid  oppor- 
tunity to  visit  the  work  of  our  own  denom- 
ination using  it  as  a  supplement  to  the 
text  book.  A  very  good  way  to  do  this  is 
by  a  poster  map.  Secure  as  large  a  map 
of  the  United  States  as  possible.  An  out- 
line map  traced  on  a  large  sheet  of  white 
paper  is  very  fine  as  it  makes  a  most  strik- 
ing poster.  Then  from  your  home  trace  a 
line  to  each  of  our  points  of  interest.  You 
can  mark  the  stop-overs  with  gold  stars, 
or  you  can  cut  out  objects  from  cover 
paper  or  pictures  from  magazines  that 
would  represent  the  type  of  activity.  Use 
a  part  of  the  time  at  each  meeting  to 
develop  your  map  presenting  one  phase  of 
our  work.  I  will  list  some  of  the  points 
that  could  be  used  but  each  leader  must 
use  her  own  judgment  as  to  the  order  in 
which  to  take  the  trip. 

The  Japanese  work  on  the  Pacific  coast, 
mark  with  a  lantern  cut  from  figured 
wall-paper.  The  Indian  Mission  School  at 
Neillsville,  Wis.,  mark  with  a  tent  or 
Indian-head  sticker.  For  the  negro  work  at 
Bowling  Green,  Ky.,  use  a  colored  boy. 
The  Jewish  Missions  at  Philadelphia  and 
New  York  might  be  marked  with  Com- 
munity Center  Houses.  Use  little  churches 
to  mark  the  Hungarian  and  Bohemian 
and  other  Home  Mission  stations.  Chapter 
5  of  the  Forward  Movement  Handbook 
will  give  you  splendid  information  ;  so  also, 
will  the  Outlook  of  Missions  for  May, 
1921,  on  the  Indians.  When  visiting  the 
Indians  and  the  Japanese  be  sure  to 
emphasize  the  fact  that  these  are  objects 
of  Mission  Band  support.  Be  sure  to  visit 
the  educational  institutions.  You  will 
find  them  listed  on  page  184  of  the  Hand- 
book. The  hospital  at  Cleveland  can  be 
marked  with  a  red  cross.  The  Home  for 
the  Aged  in  Ohio,  and  the  Phoebe  Deacon- 
ess Home  in  Pa.  could  be  marked  with  a 


picture  of  some  old  folks.  Do  not  overlook 
the  Orphanages,  for  there  are  five  in  num- 
ber; Nazareth  in  North  Carolina;  Hoff- 
man, St.  Paul ;  and  Bethany  in  Pa. ;  and 
Fort  Wayne,  in  Indiana.  Mark  these  with 
pictures  of  children.  When  presenting 
the  poster  to  the  children  give  your  little 
talk  about  the  place  to  be  visited  first 
and  then  allow  one  of  the  children  to  paste 
the  object  on  the  map.  It  might  be  very 
helpful  at  a  meeting  of  the  W.  M.  S.  to 
have  some  child  bring  the  map,  and 
explain  it  to  the  society.  It  will  bring 
the  work  of  your  Band  to  the  attention  of 
the  women,  besides  visualizing  for  them 
the  extent  of  the  work  of  the  Reformed 
Church. 

'  A  PAGEANT 

PRESENTING 
Stay-at-Home- Journeys 

Scene  I — Hall — Front  door — Stairs — 
and  Upstairs  landing.  Jim  Grange  in 
position  as  butler.  Rose  Ellen  appears  at 
top  of  stairs. 

Rose  Ellen — Whoo-hoo,  Jim.  'Tending 
the  door  ?  Dressed  up  !  Your  curly  hair 
is  brushed  down  so  smooth  one  could  slide 
on  your  head. 

Jim — Hello,  Rose  Ellen,  but  it  took  you 
long.    Of  course,  you're  a  girl. 

Rose  Ellen — Oh,  I'm  the  first  to  be 
ready,  am  I  not? 

(Mary  and  Elsie  Kate  from  upstairs  to 
Rose  Ellen)    Do  you  see  anything? 

Rose  Ellen — Sh  1  She's  just  coming. 

(Jim  rattles  door  knob,  opens  door  and 
Lady  Beautiful  arrives  and  is  received  by 
Miss  Paxton  and  teachers  and  is  ushered 
from  the  hall.  Rose  Ellen  is  seen  spying 
from  top  of  stairs  and  now  withdraws 
quickly  to  the  rest  of  the  orphanage 
children  who  appear  on  the  stairs.) 

Mary — What  Is  she  like? 

Rose  Ellen —  She's  a  real  one. 

Mary — A  real  one? 

Rose  Ellen — Yes,  a  real  home  lady.  I 
know  she  is  not  a  teacher,  or  a  Secretary 
or  anything  like  that,  but  one  who  lives 
in  a  real  home.  I  know  she  has  one  all  her 
own. 

Elise  Kate — IIow  can  you  tell? 

Rose  Ellen — Oh,  I  can  tell  by  looking  at 


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her.  I  know  the  kind  that  live  in  real 
homes:  she  is  just  like  them.  And  her 
hair — they  asked  her  to  take  off  her  hat — 
it  is — well,  warm  and  sort  o'  fire-light; 
yes  that  is  what  it  is  like. 

An  Older  Girl — What  a  crazy  idea! 
Hair  like  firelight !  You're  always  having 
such  wild  notions,  Rose  Ellen,  and  every- 
one else  taking  up  with  them !  Come,  you 
are  all  wanted  down  stairs  now.  Get  in 
line.  Much  good,  praising  up  her  hair 
will  do  if  we  are  not  down  in  time ! 

Scene  II — Dining  Room 

(A  line  of  boys  joins  the  line  of  girls  at 
foot  of  stairs.  Jim  and  Rose  Ellen  walk 
together  at  head  of  line.) 

Jim  (nudging  Rose  Ellen)— Everyone's 
got  to  be  good  at  supper  tonight — ahem ! 

(Rose  Ellen  abstracted  in  thought, 
gives  no  answer.) 

Jim — Say,  Rose  Ellen,  what's  her 
name  ? 

Rose  Ellen — It's  the  Lady  Beautiful. 

Jim — Some  book  name!  Honk,  honk; 
(they  part  and  file  to  opposite  sides  of 
table.) 

The  children,  teachers.  Miss  Paxton  and 
Lady  Beautiful  are  seated  at  the  table. 
They  sing,  to  the  tune  of  St.  Christopher. 
*'Thou  who  did'st  bless  the  children 

And  give  the  people  bread. 
We  thank  Thee  for  our  homes  and  food, 

We  pray,  may  all  be  fed. 
May  none,  dear  Lord,  be  hungry. 

None  homeless,  sad  or  cold ; 
May  all  Thy  children  through  this  night 

Be  safe  within  Thy  fold." 

Miss  Paxton — What  are  you  going  to 
say  to  our  visitor,  children? 

Children  (together) — We  are  very  glad 
to  welcome  you;  we  will  be  pleased  to 
show  you  every  kindness.  We  wish  you  to 
stay  with  us  many  days. 

(Miss  Paxton  serves  the  meal.  The 
children  eat.) 

Miss  Paxton — This  is  a  new  friend,  who 
has  just  returned  from  a  long  journey. 
She  tells  me  she  has  seen  many  homes 
while  visiting  the  far-away-parts  of  our 
country.  She  is  interested  in  this  home  of 
ours,  in  all  sorts  of  homes,  and  in  helping 
to  make  our  America  a  better  home  for 
everyone  who  lives  here. 


Rose  Ellen  (aside) — I  wish  I  could  see 
one — just  one — real  home. 

Miss  Paxton  (continuing) — I  have  asked 
our  friend  to  tell  us  about  these  other 
homes.  For  while  we  cannot  travel  as  she 
has,  we  should  love  to  take  a  stay-at-home 
journey.  Of  course  we  think  this  home  of 
our  is  just  the  nicest  of  all,  but  we  should 
like  to  know  about  the  homes  of  other 
American  boys  and  girls. 

Rose  Ellen — I  don't  think  this  home 
the  nicest  of  all.  I  would  like  to  be  in 
those  other  homes  better  than  here. 

Miss  Paxton — You  may  go  right  up  to 
bed,  Rose  Ellen.  How  could  you  be  so 
rude  ? 

Lady  Beautiful  (in  an  undertone  to 
Miss  Paxton) — I  wish  you  would  forgive 
the  girl  this  time  and  let  her  stay. 

Miss  Paxton — Rose  Ellen,  you  have  a 
friend  at  court  who  pleads  for  you.  Per- 
haps if  you  stay,  you  will  feel  differently 
about  things.  No,  don't  go  back  to  your 
seat.  You  must  sit  right  here  until  we  are 
ready  to  go  back  to  the  living  room. 

Jim  (aside  to  Chapin) — Couldn't  have 
rewarded  her  better.  She's  been  leaning 
over  her  chair  to  keep  her  eyes  on  that 
lady — calls  her  some  fancy  name  or  other. 

Miss  Paxton  (tapping  on  table — all  the 
people  rise) — Boys  and  girls,  instead  of 
going  to  study -hall  as  on  ordinary  week 
nights,  you  will  please  march  to  the  living 
room  to  hear  stories. 

Scene  III — Living-room 

Children  march  in.  Miss  Paxton,  Lady 
Beautiful  and  Rose  Ellen  in  the  rear. 
Rose  Ellen  remains  near  the  Lady  Beauti- 
ful as  Miss  Paxton  arranges  the  children. 

Lady  Beautiful  (to  Rose  Ellen) — Tell 
me,  what  it  is  you  don't  like  here  ?  Don't 
be  afraid,  tell  me  just  what  it  is. 

Rose  Ellen — Oh.  it  just  isn't  a  real 
home. 

Lady  Beautiful — What  is  a  real  home? 

Rose  Ellen — I  wonder. 

Lady  Beautiful — If  you  find  out,  will 
you  let  me  know  ?  I  have  wondered  about 
it  myself. 

Miss  Paxton  (approaching  Lady  Beau- 
tiful)— Do  you  wish  to  begin? 

Lady  Beautiful  (seating  herself  among  . 
the  children) — I  think  we  shall  take  a 


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journey  to  some  warm  and  sunny  land 
this  wintery  evening.  I  know  one  of  the 
bright  spots  in  the  world  that  sends  us 
golden  things  to  eat.  You  had  some  of 
them  for  supper  this  evening.  They  were 
long  and  yellow. 

Children  (all  together) — Yes,  bananas, 
bananas ! 

Lady  Beautiful — That  is  right.  Now  I 
have  in  mind  a  story  about  "Felipe  of  the 
Golden  Bananas."  Shall  I  tell  you  about 
him? 

Children  (all  together) — Yes,  Yes. 

(Arrange  part  of  platform  to  represent 
room  in  Porto  Rican  home  as  described  on 
pages  16-19.  Have  costumes  and  other 
appurtenances  as  are  within  reach  to  make 
the  pantomime  as  realistic  as  possible.) 

Felipe  was  the  main  support  of  a 
family  in  Porto  Rico  (family  appear).  He 
did  this  by  marketing  bananas.  (Felipe 
carrying  basket  of  bananas.)  He  takes 
his  breaifast  early  for  it  is  a  long  distance 
to  market,  (breakfast  in  pantomime — 
cocoanut  shell  used  for  coffee  cup).  Sister 
Marie  asks  him  to  take  notice  of  the  grand 
ladies  in  the  Plaza  to  see  wiiat  fine  clothes 
they  are  wearing.  (Marie  has  but  one 
dress,  but  she  loves  pretty  clothes.) 
Mother  reminds  Felipe  Tomasito  not  to 
stay  late.  If  the  moon  shines  on  him  it 
will  be  bad  luck. 

Felipe  is  happy  in  his  work  because  he 
hopes  soon  to  have  enough  money  to  go 
to  Government  school. 

(Pantomime — Felipe     takes     leave — 
Joanna,  the  little  sister,  stretches  out  her 
arms  to  go  with  him — Baby  Marco  smiles 
as  Felipe  pats  him  and  says  good-bye.) 
(To  he  continued  in  the  December 
number.) 


Tuberculosis  in  the  South 

APPEOXIMATELY  132,000  persons 
in  the  United  States  die  of  tubercu- 
losis every  year,  and  a  very  large  percent- 
age of  these  deaths  is  among  Negroes.  In 
fact,  the  relative  death  rate  from  tuber- 
culosis among  colored  people  is  two  and 
one-half  times  higher  than  it  is  among 
white  people.  All  kinds  of  theories  have 
been  advanced  to  account  for  this  condi- 
tion, such  as  unfavorable  climate,  bad 
housing  and  living  conditions,  improper 


food,  etc.,  and  no  doubt  each  of  these  has 
some  foundation.  But  it  is  unlikely  that 
any  one  cause  is  responsible  for  the  high 
death  and  case  rate  from  the  disease. 

The  southern  climate  seems  to  be,  on 
the  whole,  better  suited  to  the  constitution 
of  the  Negro  than  that  of  the  north,  but 
in  both  the  north  and  south  the  tubercu- 
losis problem  among  colored  people  is 
acute.  Every  year  tuberculosis  associa- 
tions in  cities  having  large  colored  popu- 
lations are  increasing  their  efforts  to  stop 
the  tremendous  inroads  which  the  Great 
White  Plague  is  making  upon  the  race  by 
endeavoring  to  eliminate  the  many  condi- 
tions which  are  known  to  be  favorable  to 
the  development  of  the  disease.  Clean-up 
campaigns,  lectures,  motion  picture  per- 
formances, health  sermons,  all  these  are 
being  utilized  in  the  campaign  to  save 
lives. 

In  order  to  make  this  w^ork  of  lasting 
benefit,  however,  Negroes  themselves  must 
co-operate  in  the  program  of  these  agen- 
cies. While  it  is  true  that  colored  people 
as  a  rule  respond  with  eagerness  and 
enthusiasm  to  calls  for  co-operation  in 
public  health  work,  it  is  also  true  that  the 
results  so  far  accomplished  are  a  mere 
drop  of  relief  in  an  ocean  of  great  need. 

Permanent  good  can  be  achieved  only 
by  continual  all-year-reund  adherence  to 
the  simple  laws  of  public  health.  For 
example,  every  spring  a  certain  tubercu- 
losis association  in  the  south  conducts  a 
"clean-up"  campaign  in  the  colored  dis- 
trict of  the  city.  In  conjunction  with 
this  work,  lectures,  sermons  and  other 
educational  work  are  given  by  the  colored 
field  worker  and  by  local  colored  minis- 
ters and  club  women.  But  each  spring  the 
town  requires  another  house-cleaning 
equally  as  strenuous  as  the  one  that  pre- 
ceded it  the  year  before.  To  be  sure, 
many  families  have  improved  their  ways 
of  living,  have  papered  and  painted  their 
homes,  and  take  pride  in  keeping  them 
free  from  dust,  flies  and  contamination. 
But  much  more  than  tliis  needs  to  be 
done.  Since  the  health  of  a  people  comes 
before  everything  else  in  its  existence,  no 
effort  should  be  too  great  to  expend  upon 
it.  Cleanliness,  both  personal  and  in  the 
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Missionary  Education 

PLAN  PREPARE  PROMOTE 

"Missions  is  as  necessary  an  element  in  the  program  of  the  Christian  church  as  it  is  in 
the  building  of  Christian  character." 

The  mission-study  text -books  for  this  year  are  based  upon  the  fundamentals  of  the  mis- 
sionary enterprise.  Thoughtful  and  progressive  church  leaders  will  want  to  use  them  for 
laying  foundations  for  future  missionary  activities. 


HOME  MISSION  MATERIALS 

November  is  Home  Mission  month.    The  following  timely  material  should  find  a  place  in 
every  church  program  this  month: 

General  Theme:  "Facing  Our  Unfinished  Task  in  America" 
For  Adults  "From  Survey  to  Service"    By  Haelan  P.  Douglass 

A  study  of  some  of  the  great  problems  before  the  religious  forces  of  America  as  revealed  espe- 
cially by  the  recent  surveys.    Every  citizen  concerned  for  America's  welfare  will  find  here  a 
statesmanlike  presentation  of  the  task  to  be  accomplished. 
Price:  cloth,  75  cents;  paper,  50  cents;  postpaid 

For  Young  People      "Playing  Square  With  Tomorrow"      By  Fred  Eastman 

A  challenge  to  the  young  people  of  America  to  choose  the  path  of  service  rather  than  the 
path  of  self-interest.    The  needs  of  rural  communities,  of  new  Americans,  of  migrant  workers, 
of  Indians  and  Mexicans  in  the  United  States,  and  of  the  peoples  of  Alaska  and  Porto  Rico  are 
made  definite  by  clear  and  vivid  presentation.    Illustrated  with  photographs. 
Price:  cloth,  75  cents;  paper,  50  cents;  postpaid 

For  Intermediates  "Making  Life  Count"  By  Eugene  Fosteb 

Boys  and  girls  starting  out  in  the  world  will  find  this  book  full  of  inspiration.    It  will  help 
them  in  making  their  life  worth  while  to  themselves  and  to  their  community.    It  is  full  of 
stimulating  stories  of  people  who  have  overcome  obstacles  and  achieved  success. 
Price:  cloth,  75  cents;  paper,  50  cents;  postpaid 

For  Juniors  "Stay-at-Home  Journeys"  By  Agnes  Osboene 

Six  interesting  stories  about  different  kinds  of  homes,  showing  what  Christian  helpfulness  of 
missionaries  has  meant  to  children  who  live  in  an  orphanage,  in  Porto  Rico,  in  Alaska,  in 
migrant  shacks,  and  in  the  crowded  tenements  of  a  great  city. 
Price:  cloth,  60  cents;  paper,  40  cents;  postpaid 

"America  at  Home" 

A  sheet  of  twelve  pictures,  5x8  inches,  illustrating  all  sorts  of  American  homes,  from  the  city 
apartment  house,  to  the  berrypicker's  shack,  the  mountaineer  and  the  Negro  cabin,  and  the 
Porto  Rican  home. 
Price,  25  cents,  postpaid 

For  Children  "Young  Americans"  By  Anita  Ferris 

A  collection  of  six  primary  picture  stories  through  which  children  will  learn  some  of  the  needs 
of  the  frontier  and  mountaineer  child,  the  Negro,  Indian  and  Oriental,  and  how  the  average 
American  child  can  help  them  solve  their  problems.  These  are  accompanied  by  six  pictures 
9x13  inches. 

Price,  50  cents,  postpaid 

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